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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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After 9/11, I told the American people I would do everything in my power to protect the country, within the law, and that's exactly how I conduct my presidency.

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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

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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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For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.

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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

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Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.

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Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.

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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

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Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

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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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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

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It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

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Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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We are a nation of laws.

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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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