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Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law.” Raphael’s look was priceless. “My mother is an insane archangel.
No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.
Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.
Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.
Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.
The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don’t get a moral law unless there’s a moral law giver.
We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.
I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
[Barak] Obama's immigration behavior, executive amnesty, this DREAMer stuff - everything he's doing - is outside the law.
Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.
Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.
This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.
There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.
Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.
In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.
We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.
We know that when law-abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.