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'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

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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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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

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If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

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My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

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In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

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[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.

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Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

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In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.

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If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

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