Law is where you buy it in this town.

Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely

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Topic

Corruption Law

Speaker

Philip Marlowe

Author

Raymond Chandler

Source

Farewell, My Lovely

Medium

Novel

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, ch. 19.

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A lot depends on who's in the saddle.

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Another quote about Law

The truth is, that the law is always approaching, and never reaching, consistency. It is forever adopting new principles from life at one end, and it always retains old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off. It will become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow.

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Topic
Evolution of law Nature of law Law

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Language
English
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." 23 Nov. 1880, The Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009.

Another quote from 1940

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Winston Churchill

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Topic
World War II British empire
Speaker
Winston Churchill
Source
Their Finest Hour
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Their Finest Hour." House of Commons meeting. 18 June 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Alone: Their Finest Hour." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.