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“When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.”

Way Persons Said Book Law Felt Army Noble Saving

Author:William Sanderson

“From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.”

Ifs Men States Faces Law Justice Poor Crime Equal Fairs Ideals Constitution Noble Lawyer Trials Emphasis Poor Man Tribunals Accusers Fair Trial

Author:Hugo Black

“Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.”

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“Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.”

Ifs Knows Doe Ends Law Next Justice Principles Practice Objects Ignorance Equal Noble Profession Selfishness Streams Ministry Noble Profession

Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.”

Law Nations Liberty Wise Defense Noble Chains Mail Restraint

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“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

“Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord.....In the royal city of the east, they have slain the successor of Constantine and his people, desecrated the temples of the Lord, defiled the noble church of Justinian with their Mohometan abominations. Each success, will only be a stepping stone until he has mastered all the Western Monarchs, overthrow the Christian Faith, and imposed the law of his false prophet on the whole world”

“Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.”

Mind Action Law Virtue Kings Honor Perfection Sacred Noble Aids Ties Honour

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes