Laws Quotes

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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. — Solon
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a… — Edmund Burke
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action… — Albert Einstein
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the… — Thomas Jefferson
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,… — George Washington
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. — Agnes Repplier
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood… — Winston Churchill
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones. — Abraham Lincoln
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up. — Aristotle
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into… — Winston Churchill
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of… — Dan Barker
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain… — Abraham Lincoln
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get rid of unionized… — Newt Gingrich
The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is. — Neale Donald Walsch
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We… — Rose Macaulay
I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics… — David Deutsch
The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated… — Barack Obama
With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr.… — Harvey Fierstein

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