Where the law is uncertain there is no law.


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We wouldn't even know where to look to find the law because there is no law.
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Where there is law there is injustice
LEO TOLSTOY
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
UNKNOWN
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
BIBLE
There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
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There is no law governing all things.
GIORDANO BRUNO
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
No law is stronger than is the public sentiment where it is to be enforced.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
There is no question that (the law) is making a difference.
BONNIE CAMPBELL
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Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
BILLY SUNDAY
It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the...
FIDEL CASTRO
Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.
CASSANDRA CLARE
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EDMUND BURKE
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EDMUND BURKE
There is no question in my mind that the law is being abused here.
BRIAN CAMENKER
There is no law stronger than that of
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There is no law or regulation anywhere that says this information is illegal.
BRUCE MARTIN
There is a considerable body of law that says the court has to follow the law at the time the case i...
BRUCE KENNEDY
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EMMA GOLDMAN
No one is above the law.
JOSH EARNEST
There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.
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Each house has to pass the whole law and the same law. This is a case where the Constitution is very...
ALAN MORRISON
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
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DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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DAN ALTMAN
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The Law is the Law!
DAVID PRATT
There can be no liberty without the law.
CECIL B. DEMILLE
Immigration law is civil law; law enforcement never enforces civil law.
ANGELICA SALAS
There is a general sense here at the moment that the only law that matters is the law of power.
JENNIFER ROSENBAUM
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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HEINRICH SUSO
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There is no proverb without a grain of truth
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BEN HAND
It's not like there's a law against flying."

"Yes there is. The law of gravity.
LAINI TAYLOR
No matter what side of the law you are on, when it comes to revenge, there is no mercy.
R.J. TORBERT
This is not a case where the law has been misapplied,
HENRY HUDSON
The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
CASSANDRA CLARE
There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.
ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Better no law than law not enforced
DANISH PROVERB
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LYSANDER SPOONER
The supreme law of the land is the Great Spirit's law, not man's law.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The verdict is indeed shocking but no one is above law.
KUMAR MOHAN
The fact that no action has been initiated against him, proves that there is no rule of law in UP.
LALJI TANDON
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
WILLIAM SEWARD
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DAVID BALDUS
No religious law should have the force of secular law,
JUDY REBICK
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
BUGS BAER
There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
The law is above the law, you know.
DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS
The law is above the law, you know
DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS
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DAVID LAWRENCE
It's not like law or medicine where there are extraordinary standards.
GARY SCHATSKY
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
PLATO
There is no justice among law, only those who brings it, and do it rightly so.
J C A ROWE
No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
DANA BOENTE
It's a highly uncertain regime after that date. Nobody wants to be the first to try out a new law.
CLAUDIA BAUCUS
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
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There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY
The law is the law, and you are here to enforce the law. There are two competing theories of reality...
MIKE RAMSEY
What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
IMRAN KHAN
Law is order, and good law is good order.
ARISTOTLE
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JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
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