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Lawful Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
- He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance…
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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… — 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… — Josh Billings
- We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Saint Augustine
- Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave… — Rajneesh
- Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or… — Walter Raleigh
- I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — Abraham Lincoln