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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

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Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.

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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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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents.

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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

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The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

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We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

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I've directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.

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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

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It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

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I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

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The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that is why it is so important to insist upon the final thing first, and then all the regulations, all the disciplines, will follow.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

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