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If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.
If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.
I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.