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

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that’s very important for the American public to know.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.