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| Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. |
| Plato |
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| He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. (Proverbs 28:9) |
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| I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. |
| Fred Allen |
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| If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. |
| John Paul Jones |
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| Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. |
| Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community |
| St. Thomas Aquinas |
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| Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them |
| Jonathan Swift |
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| Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws. |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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