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I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.
Frank Shorter

Time, School, Training

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
Tony Blair

Today, Tough, Order

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
Tom Tancredo

Politics, Terrible, Policy

Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover

Justice, Order, Incidental

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Human, Book, Give

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
Robert Bork

Equality, Before, Purpose

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
Spike Lee

Character, Perfect, Cannot

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
James Bovard

President, Longer, Above

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
Dario Fo

Revolution, Thought, Liberty

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
Hosni Mubarak

Before, Youth, Rights

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
David Mamet

Government, Black, Both

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
Russell Baker

Life, American, Whatever

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
Vernon Howard

Study, Cause, Effect

The first is the law, the last prerogative.
John Dryden

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
John Dryden

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
Thomas Francis Meagher

History, Death, Crime

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
Edward Young

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.
Eliot Spitzer

Society, Wisdom, Deep

In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'
J. C. Watts

Him, Said, Vote

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
Claude Debussy

Wish, Rules, Listen

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Charles de Secondat

Political, Human, Reason

Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.
Joseph Prince

Grace, Listen, Judgment

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Karl Liebknecht

Both, Capitalism, Basic

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
James A. Garfield

Behind, Coercion

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
Claude Chabrol

Study, Started, Licence

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
Ethan Allen

Nature, Reason, While

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Christopher Dawson

Work, Men, Angels

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
Alan Dershowitz

Science, Legal, Mistakes

The law is agnostic about truth.
Alan Dershowitz

Truth, Agnostic

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
Dick Gregory

Work, Black, Dance

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