Quotes

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Law & Order

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. -- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. -- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973.

You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it.-- Former US President Harry S. Truman (June 4, 1948)

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. -- Former US President Richard Nixon (May 19, 1977)

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. -- Former US President Theodore Roosevelt

Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one. -- Chinese Proverb

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. -- George Bernard Shaw