Edward Livingston quotes
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“By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.”
-- Edward Livingston -
“No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.”
-- Edward LivingstonSource : Edward Livingston (2010). “A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana”, p.10, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
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“To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.”
-- Edward Livingston
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“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”
Source : Quoted in James Parton, Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 7th ed. (1858)
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“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
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“You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.”
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“The best possible preparation of success is empower yourself with trust in self capabilities.”
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Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications
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Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press
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