"The spirit of moderation should also be the……" — Baron de Montesquieu

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• If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver. — Clement of Alexandria
• If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not… — Gerald Heaney
• In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of… — Clifford Allbutt
• No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God… — Charles Grandison Finney
• I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works… — James McCosh
• Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life,… — Mabel Collins
• The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to… — Alexander MacLaren
• The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director,… — Joseph Weizenbaum
• Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and… — Artur Phleps
• It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does… — Joan D. Chittister
• He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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