Lawful Quotes

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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of… — Frederic Bastiat
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. — Josh Billings
We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering… — John O. Brennan
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;… — Thomas Carlyle
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel de Cervantes
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. — Anton Chekhov
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish… — James Madison
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. — Frederic Bastiat
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence… — Saint Augustine
Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love… — Rajneesh
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to… — Walter Raleigh
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution… — Abraham Lincoln
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive. — Aristotle
Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law. — Henry Campbell Black
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to… — Tertullian
For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but… — Lactantius
It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri. — Ovid
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature… — Anton Chekhov
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and… — Charles Grandison Finney
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands… — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

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