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Law Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
- Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
- Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large…
- It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to…
- It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The…
- A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
- There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him…
- Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
- Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in…
- If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the…
- Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
- Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
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- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson