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title: "19 Obedience Law Quotes by 16 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Obedience Law quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Obedience Law sayings and thoughts."
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> [In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/calvin-coolidge/in-a-republic-the-first-rule-for-the-guidance-of-the-citizen-is/)

[Calvin Coolidge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/calvin-coolidge/)

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> [Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau/liberty-is-obedience-to-the-law-which-one-has-laid-down-for-oneself/)

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau/)

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> [Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roosevelt/obedience-of-the-law-is-demanded-not-asked-as-a-favor/)

[Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roosevelt/)

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> [Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/obedience-to-the-law-of-bread-labour-will-bring-about-a-silent/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-a-bednar/obedience-to-the-law-of-chastity-will-increase-our-happiness-in/)

[David A. Bednar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-a-bednar/)

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> [The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-andelin/the-first-law-of-heaven-is-obedience-and-it-should-be-the-first-law/)

[Helen Andelin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-andelin/)

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> [Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/calvin-coolidge/can-those-entrusted-with-the-gravest-authority-set-any-example-save/)

[Calvin Coolidge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/calvin-coolidge/)

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> [ “\[T\]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau/t-he-mere-impulse-of-appetite-is-slavery-while-obedience-to-a-law/)

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau/)

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> [“…The identity I tried to establish by obedience to the Law is dead, the life Jesus lived to fulfill the Law is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-chapell/the-identity-i-tried-to-establish-by-obedience-to-the-law-is-dead-the/)

[Bryan Chapell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-chapell/)

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> [Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-london/thus-it-was-that-in-obedience-to-the-law-laid-down-by-his-mother-and/)

[Jack London](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-london/)

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> [Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-g-white/through-the-grace-of-christ-we-shall-live-in-obedience-to-the-law-of/)

[Ellen G. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-g-white/)

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> [Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kropotkin/cleverly-assorted-scraps-of-spurious-science-are-inculcated-upon-the/)

[Peter Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kropotkin/)

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> [Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/jesus-didn-t-come-to-earth-to-establish-a-new-religion-he-came-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/fidelity-and-allegiance-sworn-to-the-king-is-only-such-a-fidelity-and/)

[Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/)

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> [“Obedience to a law which cannot be resisted is not the service of the heart—not the highest tribute to the Creator's glory.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-gatty/obedience-to-a-law-which-cannot-be-resisted-is-not-the-service-of-the/)

[Margaret Gatty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-gatty/)

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> [There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/there-are-times-when-you-have-to-obey-a-call-which-is-the-highest-of/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/in-all-well-attempered-governments-there-is-nothing-which-should-be/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/morality-has-been-conceived-up-to-the-present-in-a-very-narrow-spirit/)

[Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/)

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> [I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-think-that-what-i-was-talking-about-was-that-as-a-woman-growing-up/)

[Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/)

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