OK, so I was wrong on my last post. I'm apparently a blabber-mouth. I forgot the cardinal rule of blogging, "blogging means never having to say you're sorry!". Anyway, I have stumbled upon some fascinating quotes in my Intro to Law textbook.Calm down, I am merely studying to be a paralegal, not F. Lee Bailey. Here is a shout out to GW.
"We are going to have to decide what kind of people we are-whether we obey the law only when we approve of it or whether we obey it no matter how distasteful we find it."
-Harry S. Ashmore, "On Integration of Little Rock High School", Arkansas Gazette 4 Sept, 1957
And this, from Robert Bolts "A Man for All Seasons":
Sir Thomas More: The law, Roper, the law. I know what's legal, and not what's right. And I'll stick to what's legal.
William Roper: Then you set man's law above God's?
More: No, far below; but let me draw your attention to a fact-I am not God. The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing, I can't navigate.
Roper: So... you'd give the Devil benefit of the law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Oh, if only Bush had read more in college. Or at least gone to see the movie. Although I am sure that we all would like him to be a little more like Roper in his pursuit of Bin Laden. Wasn't he the devil there for a while?
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