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  • The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Men Quotes , Law Quotes
  • Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Law Quotes , People Quotes
  • The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Science Quotes , Law Quotes
  • The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Race Quotes , Law Quotes
  • By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Law Quotes , History Quotes