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According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies… — Unknown Author
He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life. — Leon Brown
Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would… — Milton Friedman
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness — Aeschylus
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the… — George Soros
"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by… — John Updike
The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. — George Mason
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,… — Gore Vidal
The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the… — Rudy Giuliani
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the… — G I Gurdjieff
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. — Wendell Phillips
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. — Seneca the Younger
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. — Louis Dudek
From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The… — John Quincy Adams
The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws. — Barack Obama
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people… — Richard M. Nixon
If somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm, then perhaps there are other things that our cops… — Sarah Palin
The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln
It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars… — Morgan Freeman
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be… — Arianna Huffington
The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs… — Ron Paul

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