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If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
Law is a bottomless pit.
Law is a bottomless pit.
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will read more
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes
hereafter, some of them in hell.
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the read more
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every read more
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
