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  • But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Taken Quotes , Law Quotes
  • I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Order Quotes , Law Quotes
  • But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Taken Quotes , Law Quotes
  • Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Men Quotes , Law Quotes
  • We don't talk about sources and methods. Don't talk about ongoing intelligence operations. I know there's speculation. But it's important for the American people to understand that I will use my powers to protect us, and I will do so under the law, and that's important for our citizens to understand.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Law Quotes , People Quotes
  • It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham H. Cannon Quotes , Law Quotes , Government Quotes