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“We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.”

Ifs War Law Failing Constitution Slavery Slave Operations Hereafter Fugitive

Author:Jay Sekulow

“While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.”

War Law Lost Failing Standards Claims Responsible Structure Protection Command Fighter Conventions Uniforms Initials Taliban Obeying Pow

Author:John Yoo

“With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.”

Stills Done Law Order Failing Episodes

Author:Anthony Mackie

“Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.”

Care Law Failing Promise Cost Health Care Flawed Taxpayers Obamacare Affordable Coverage

Author:Fred Upton

“When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.”

People Humans Law Interest Natural Justice Powerful Leader Failing Written Human Nature Protect Injustice Arise Justify Most Powerful Powerful Leaders

Book:Living Faith

Source: Living Faith

“After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.”

“I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.”

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Author:David Mamet

“The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.”

Giving Ideas Law Results Quality Failing Concrete

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.”

Source: Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative

“There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.”

Government Law Social Failing Conditions Essentials Tasks Institute Accounting Register Divergence Laws And Government

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.”

People Needs Littles Ends Law Bits Goal Natural Vision Rights Failing Disease Little Bit Noble Disaster Fairness Dealings Natural Disaster

Author:Scott Turow

“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.”

“Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?”

Men Kind Law Church Failing Talent Highest Court Stations Discretion Regularity

Book:Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724

Source: Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724

“The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.”

Knows Men Soul Form Law Effort Know How Failing Highest Ideals Prophet Destined Maxims Ideal Man

Book:The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

Source: The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

“Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.”

Wells Mean Doe Made Body Age Law Dies Failing Eternal Skins Function Errors Physics Cells Genes Organs One Word Eternal Life Laws Of Physics Sluggish

Author:Michio Kaku