Thomas More Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
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In my second inaugural address, I said that if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. It is gratifying to see that principle enshrined into law by this decision.
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I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.
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I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.
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The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed.
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The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot.
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It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.
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We are a nation of laws, and we should live by the rule of law. And sometimes we should have a little bit of common sense.
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While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.
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I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them.
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My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.
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The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
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Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
