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“In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.”

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Author:Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.”

Source: The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand

“That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.”

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Author:George Mason

“The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.”

Important Law Execution

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”

Knows Success Law Political Method Libertarian Secure Presidential Grants Execution Obnoxious Bad Laws Strict Laws

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.”

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Author:Peter Guber