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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Law Quotes , Justice Quotes
  • Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Science Quotes , Law Quotes
  • It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aeschines Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes
  • Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Law Quotes
  • My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Law Quotes , Punishment Quotes
  • It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Law Quotes , Heaven Quotes