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Law Quotes by Samuel Adams
- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority…
- If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand…
- [N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
- And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and…
- Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to…
- Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to…
- Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty, in matters spiritual and temporal is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the…
- If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such…
- Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies…
More Law Quotes
- 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
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- 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