Laws Quotes
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No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
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We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.
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Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.
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Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
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Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
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As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
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All the evidence suggests that stricter gun laws would fall disproportionately on the same people who have always bear the brunt of tough criminal justice policies.
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It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
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The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
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We have got to secure the border and enforce existing immigration laws.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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The laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
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It has been claimed by many that Freethought does away with churches, creeds, Christs and even a God. So it does to a certain extent, but not as feared by Christians. Freethought has never said pull down your churches, burn up your creeds, crucify your savior or reject your god. No one ever knew a Freethinker to try to make laws to control people. All their efforts have been the other way, trying to tear down laws already made which control by "Thou shalt" and "thou shalt not."
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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.
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Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.
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The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.
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These gun laws are very much the creation of the Prime Minister.
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Obtained professional advice to ensure that we followed applicable laws.
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The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.
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It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
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Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.
