Roscoe Pound quotes
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“Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.”
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“The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.”
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“Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.”
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“Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.”
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“Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.”
-- Roscoe Pound
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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“Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.”
Source : Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50
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“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
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“Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.”
Source : A.J. Cronin (1941). “The Keys of the Kingdom”
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“Reason gains all people by compelling none.”
Source : "Alzira: A Tragedy". Play by Aaron Hill, 1736.
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“Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?”
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“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.”
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