The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
I've said this when I pass the trade promotion authority law, which allows us to get trade agreements. If we write the… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass,… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Necessary policemen, firemen, street cleaners, health officers, judges, legislators and executives perform productive services as important as those of anyone in private… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in… — Juliette Gordon Low Copy Share Image
The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
When we do align with it, we thrive. And when we do not, we suffer. This is not "punishment." It is merely… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to… — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
This is an issue just like 9-11... We didn't decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to.… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
In most Western democracies, you do have the freedom of speech. But freedom of speech is not an entitlement to reach. You… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to… — Allen Crawford Copy Share Image
There is an invisible thought-stuff on which the mind acts, making things through the operation of a law not yet fully understood… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image