"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." - Dean Acheson

"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Let the punishment match the offence." - Cicero, De Legibus

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief." - William S. Gilbert

"The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me." - A. E. Housman

"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it." - Theodore Roosevelt

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress." - Mark Twain

"Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours everything." - JOHN ARBUTHNOT, The History of John Bull

"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers." - CHARLES DICKENS, The Old Curiosity Shop

". . . the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - ANATOLE FRANCE, The Red Lily

"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species." - JOHN W. GARDNER, in San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people." - HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, speech (1965)

"Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass." - JANE BRYANT QUINN, in Newsweek

"Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because `tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him." - JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk

"Laws do not persuade because they threaten." - SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, Part II

"Laws are like spiders' webs: if some light or powerless thing falls into them, it is caught, but a bigger one can break through and get away." - SOLON, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers

"The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robber there will be." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Reagan, Ronald in a radio broadcast test

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