Laws Quotes

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In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for… — William J. Clinton
We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay… — Edward Kennedy
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But… — Ed Koch
The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the… — Ronald Reagan
Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but… — Ronald Reagan
Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of… — Ronald Reagan
Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws. — George Carlin
Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved. — Laozi
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. — Arthur Baer
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of… — Thomas Jefferson
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having… — Jean Rostand
As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its… — John Peter Altgeld
The universe is founded in consciousness and guided by it. The final reality is Universal Consciousness. The Supreme Consciousness is Omnipresent. Its evolutionary powers pervade… — Shriram Sharma
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which… — Bernard Moitessier
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes… — Henry Walter Bates
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the laws of probability… — Jim Al-Khalili
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It… — Roderick Haig-Brown
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body,… — Alexander Shulgin
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with… — Thomas Jefferson
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. — Henry David Thoreau
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last,… — Alexander Hamilton
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign… — Alexander Hamilton

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