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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

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Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

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So act that anything you do may become universal law.

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If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

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That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

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I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

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God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

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So many laws argues so many sins.

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States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

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Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

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Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

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You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

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