"Again, a law may be both constitutional..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
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“So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.”
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“No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.”
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“I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.”
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
“No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.”
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“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.”
“When you achieve equality, and freedom, and fairness, it's not because I grant it to you. It's because you fought for it because it is your right. This is not about benevolence or charity; it is about every human being's God-given right.”
“A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.”