Circumstances Quote by Gilbert Parker

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for…

— A. E. Housman

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

— Pope Leo XIII

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

— Bruce Lee

“Occasionally we believe that there must be an easier way, a shortcut or modification of the Lord’s commandments that will accommodate our individual circumstances.…

— Bruce A. Carlson

All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no…

— George Mason

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it…

— H. G. Wells

Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his…

— William Blackstone

“Laws are made for one purpose only (...) to hold us in check when our desires grow immoderate. As long as our desires are…

— J.M. Coetzee

Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but…

— Cecil B. DeMille

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty.

— Anonymous