Law
- William Allen Butler (1825–1902), American lawyer and writer of poetical satires
- William Elliott Butler (born 1939), American-British legal scholar
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Famous quotes containing the word law:
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It is time that we start thinking about foundational issues: about our attitudes toward fair trials... Who are the People in a multicultural society?... The victims of discrimination are now organized. Blacks, Jews, gays, women—they will no longer tolerate second-class status. They seek vindication for past grievances in the trials that take place today, the new political trial.”
—George P. Fletcher, U.S. law educator. With Justice for Some, p. 6, Addison-Wesley (1995)
“The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)