"The law is a system that protects..." - Quote by Mark Twain
The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.
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“The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.”
“Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.”
“Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.”
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“A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.”
“You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.”
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“Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.”
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.”
“I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope”