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I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.

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At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.

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The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

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He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

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If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

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To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

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We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

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Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

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A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought, to mind; certain order singly, to causation - and joined to time, to law.

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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".

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I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.

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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

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The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.

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A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

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Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

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