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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source… — John Ruskin
Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between… — Unknown Author
Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws.. — Margaret Haddix
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their… — Ayn Rand
I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we… — John Banville
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property. — Frederic Bastiat
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… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make… — Frederic Bastiat
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and… — Samuel Adams
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to… — Samuel Adams
The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. — Thomas Jefferson
The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,… — Thomas Jefferson
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of… — Alexander Hamilton
Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations,… — George Washington
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. — Thomas Paine
What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts… — John Marshall
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual… — James Madison
Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate… — Jeff Miller
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the… — Ida B. Wells
How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. — Samuel Johnson
It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the… — Hannah Arendt
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder… — Marquis de Sade

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