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The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.
I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.
what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below
I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that's his view then that should be the rule of law.
A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.
Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.
I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.
When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.
It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.
I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.
Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.
The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.
The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.
What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.
One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.
Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.
If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept
Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.
If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.
What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.