Character Quote by Calvin Coolidge Download Open image “It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.” — Calvin Coolidge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Law Nations Observance
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Though the laws are regarded as the expression of the peoples will, it is not always that the people start the process of legislation. There are occasions when the people express a desire for change or development through organized methods; and the governments formulate laws conferring a legal status to the wishes of the people. In such cases, the legislation… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
As a political tool, the laws are like two-edged knives. Draconian laws can cause untold sufferings to the people. Loosely worded laws framed without… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Its possible to shape a law that upholds our tradition as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not all those who are attempting to conduct successful businesses are profiteers — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.” — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.” — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.” — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image