Laws Quotes

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Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man… — Thomas Jefferson
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. — Robert Green Ingersoll
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these… — Edmund Husserl
We have to deal with reality. The reality is, we have a number a very high number of illegal immigrants in this country. They're meeting… — Scott McClellan
They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his… — Ayn Rand
Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on… — Harry Reid
Hate crimes based on sexual orientation are among the three top reported hate crimes after race and religion, ... Our laws should not ignore that… — Janet Reno
A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and… — Calvin Coolidge
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people… — Thomas Jefferson
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. — Grover Cleveland
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from… — Samuel Johnson
The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media… — Frances O'Grady
Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed. — Unknown Author
Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency… — Charles August Lindbergh
The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their… — Joseph Stalin
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the… — Tertullian
How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of… — David Hume
There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment… — Michel de Montaigne
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and… — Plato
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization… — Franz Joseph Gall
The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It… — Jon Kyl

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