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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.