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Letter "T" » The Law
«The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.»
Author: Gerry Spence
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
function, Law and Justice, preserve, provide, The Law
«The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still»
«The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.»
«No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.»
«The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.»
«There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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law, precious, robber, steals, strike, The Law
«Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Action
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according, ADD, drawn, equal, Equal rights, extent, individual, individual liberty, Individual right, individual rights, law, liberty, limits, plenitude, rightful, rights, right to liberty, The Law, tyrant, unobstructed, violates, violating
«The law is reason free from passion»
«Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Destiny
| Keywords:
as yet, exercises, influence, lays, The Law
«Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.»
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