Lloyd Paul Stryker quotes
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“A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.”
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“Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal.”
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“A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.”
-- Lloyd Paul Stryker
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“Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife”
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Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”
Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”
Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press
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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
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Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”