Tacitus Quotes
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
Adam Cohen -
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
A. E. Housman -
Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
We want laws to be applied predictably.
Nancy Gibbs -
I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
Sammy Sosa -
Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
Carl Levin
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson Welles -
I don't order laws, I propose them.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski -
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card -
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Dan Castellaneta -
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue -
Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
Albert Einstein -
It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.
Alfred Kinsey -
Investors know that what was going on on the Street with analysts was wrong, was corrupt and had to be changed, ... The smart business leaders are changing their ways. Those who are putting their heads in the sand are saying, 'Let's get rid of the cops who watch to make sure things get done honestly.'
Eliot Spitzer -
Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
Abraham Lincoln -
Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.
Aristotle
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The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.
Madison Smartt Bell -
I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
Eugene O'Neill -
Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
Russell Baker -
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
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