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The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals. — John C. Calhoun
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system… — John C. Calhoun
It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most… — William Golding
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which… — John Knox
We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God… — William Tyndale
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that… — Eugenio Montale
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws. — Karl Kraus
Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a… — Martin Gardner
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth. — Terence McKenna
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech,… — Frank Zappa
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces… — Roger Penrose
You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give… — Rudolf Rocker
Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS. — Unknown Author
The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of… — Auberon Waugh
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is… — Khalil Gibran
The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings. — Melissa Harris-Perry
How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors... — Daniel O'Connell
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters — Alfred Russel Wallace
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know… — Alfred Russel Wallace
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws… — Ernst Haeckel
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. — Ernst Haeckel
If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?! — Frank J. Tipler

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