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Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed? — Alexander Hamilton
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts… — Joseph Story
If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their… — James Madison
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses… — Louis Aragon
Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third,… — David Miliband
Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less — Jonathan Sacks
One life is worth no more or less than any other — Melinda Gates
Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and… — Rebecca Goldstein
The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war,… — Charles Kettering
Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain… — Thomas Jefferson
Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one… — Laozi
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? — Margaret Oliphant
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the… — Georges Cuvier
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful,… — John C. Maxwell
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel… — Regina Spektor

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