{"product_id":"the-oxford-dictionary-of-american-legal-quotations","title":"The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The words which are criticized as dirty in James Joyces Ulysses are old Saxon words known to almost all men  and  I venture  to many women  and are such words as would be naturally and habitually used  I believe  by the types of folk whose life  physical and mental  Joyce is seeking to describe. In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of his characters  it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season spring.\"--John M. Woolsey  United States v. One Book Called \"Ulysses\" The practice of law rests heavily on the incisive  pithy  and occasionally witty language of the best technical writing  and law-related themes are often found at the core of works of literature  politics  and other fields. Previous compilations of legal quotations have been limited  with significant gaps; many quoting rarely from American sources. For example  Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewarts famous quip about pornography (\"I know it when I see it\") appears in no other work. The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations is the most scholarly and most complete legal quotation reference ever published. It includes a comprehensive collection of the most famous passages of American judges and legal commentators. This work also contains the wittiest sayings from literature  humor  motion pictures  and even song lyrics relating to American law. Oliver Wendell Holmes  Jr.  Clarence Darrow  and Abraham Lincoln share the pages with Mark Twain  Will Rogers  Kurt Vonnegut  Woody Allen  and Bob Dylan. Over 3 000 entries are presented in a subject arrangement. An author index and an extensive \"key-word\" index further facilitate location of desired quotes. Each quote has been verified from the original sources  with the precise citations needed for legal reference. For example: \"Scarcely any political question arises in the United States which is not resolved  sooner or later  into a judicial question.\"--Alexis de Tocqueville  \"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.\"--Henry Kissinger  \"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.\"--William O. Douglas  \"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other  it is the principle of free thought--not free thought for those who agree with us  but freedom for the thought we hate.\"--Oliver Wendell Holmes  \"I think that we should be men first  and subjects afterwards. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law  so much as for the right.\"--Henry David Thoreau  \"No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged  than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality  that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others  none can make a law of nations.\"--John Marshall  This work fills a need for lawyers and law students requiring material for their legal writing or interested in the rich cultural and historical dimensions of their profession  as well as anyone interested in the legal system so pervasive in modern life or in the vital legacy of the American constitution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964253368373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195058593","price":27.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195058598.jpg?v=1770454136","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-oxford-dictionary-of-american-legal-quotations","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}