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The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these… — Thomas Reid
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link… — Albert Einstein
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy. — John Quincy Adams
The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power. — Thomas Cooper
The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty… — Abraham Cowley
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and… — John Dickinson
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls. — Heraclitus
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human… — Thomas Jefferson
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their… — Samuel Johnson
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows… — Mahatma Gandhi
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But… — Michio Kaku
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process… — Wallace D. Wattles
Laws without morals are in vain. — Benjamin Franklin
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they… — Frederic Bastiat
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics — Ludwig von Mises
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to… — Ayn Rand
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to… — Ayn Rand
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. — Walter E. Williams
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the… — Fisher Ames
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the… — Noah Webster
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. — James Bovard
Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might… — Byron Katie
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is… — Milton Friedman

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