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But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us. — Albert Einstein
...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. — Albert Einstein
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim… — H. L. Mencken
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common… — Pope John Paul II
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not. — Emanuel Lasker
And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be… — Paul Strand
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have… — Edmund Burke
All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the… — Hugh Reginald Haweis
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. — Thaddeus Stevens
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws. — Thaddeus Stevens
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment,… — Ken Bates
Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks. — Paul Samuelson
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks… — John Burroughs
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is… — John Burroughs
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd. — Albert Camus
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and… — Galileo Galilei
A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not… — Martin Luther
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. — Eugene Wigner
We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are -… — Barack Obama
I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in… — Barack Obama
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with… — Samuel Johnson
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz

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