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Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled? — Joseph Smith, Jr.
While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of the right of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [the Lord] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws. — Philipp Melanchthon
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation… — Roberto Bolano
Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and… — John R. Lott Jr.
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of… — Joseph Story
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more… — James Madison
Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told… — Ronald Reagan
Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he… — Cecil B. DeMille
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of… — Woodrow Wilson
This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly… — Stephen Breyer
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion… — Thomas Jefferson
Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty, in matters spiritual and temporal is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the… — Samuel Adams
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by… — Samuel West
I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good… — Patrick Henry
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such… — Samuel Adams
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of… — Alexander Hamilton
Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can… — Benjamin Franklin
God...my self in the Bronx always says that God has a funny sense of humor. ..He has a way of treating things, he deals with… — Malachi Martin
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of… — Thomas Jefferson
The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law… — Noah Webster
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in… — Benjamin Franklin

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