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A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.
I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.
Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.
The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.
If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.
The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.
The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home.
The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.
Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.
Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.
The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.
If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.
I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.
There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country.
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.
Long before I was Judge Judy, when I was an unknown worker bee, I usually got what I wanted.
It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.
There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.
I resent it when any part of the government refers to people who have money in the pejorative.
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.
The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.
We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.
In a world without Chevron, very little would change except perhaps the most important things.
Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.
To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.
If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.
Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.