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“Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.”

Law Justice Imagine Corruption Lawyer Clients Controversial Representing Despised Legal System

Book:Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)

Source: Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)

“God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.”

Doe Moments Humor Life Is Religious Justice Sin Imagine Salvation Committed This Life Sinner Imagine That Abiding

Author:Martin Luther

“We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.”

Thinking Political Actors Justice Decision Struggle Imagine Authority Court Myth Supreme Branches Imagine That Supreme Court Umpires Legitimacy

Author:Noah Feldman

“It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.”

Men Mind Done Justice Imagine Circumstances Ignorant Uncommon Narrow Minds

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!”

Ifs Should Has Beens Enough Government Causes Justice Imagine Revolution Dear Atheist Convinced Vain Imagine That Providence Superiority Ruined Deities Dear Friend

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.”

Ifs Knows Trying Justice Chance Imagine Demand Injustice

Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination