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Laws Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
- Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers…
- Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on…
- Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a…
- The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth,…
- There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a…
- The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
- No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and…
- Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to…
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- 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
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- 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
- 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
- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. — Michael Badnarik
- I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to… — Michael Badnarik
- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold… — Abigail Adams
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin
- We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he… — Christian Bale