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Your Quotes for 19 March 2006 - Law and Justice

Today's birthday list runs to men whose career involved the law. Wyatt Earp was born at Monmouth, Illinois on this day in 1848. The great advocate William Jennings Bryan was born at Salem, Illinois on this day in 1860. Earl Warren, the US Chief Justice known for investigating the assassination of John Kennedy, came along in 1891 (Los Angeles). And in 1904 John J. Sirica was born (Waterbury, Connecticut), later watched by millions as the various trials of the Watergate conspirators fascinated America. Herewith some thoughts on Law and Justice.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
     - Aristotle, 384 - 322 BC

The sentiment of justice is so natural, so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
     - François Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.
     - Herbert George Wells, 1866 - 1946

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes.
     - Learned Hand, 1872 - 1961

Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force.
     - Samuel Cooke, 1708 - 1783

It is not now, nor was it ever the law, that before submitting to a lawful arrest, a fleeing felon is entitled to a fair fistfight.
     - Carlos Bea

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