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I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood, But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places. So while they fight you down,… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
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The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
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The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“The common law … is no longer simple or straightforward. Instead it is complicated, often obscure and usually costly, so it can… — Courtenay Bryce Copy Share Image
Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse?… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
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Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
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The individual in the framework and in the service of his race, the race in the framework and in the service of… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
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Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
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