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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.

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The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

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A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

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Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

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The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

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As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

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An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

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I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

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Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

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