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It’s rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don’t operate that way.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.