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All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.
[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there.
Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.
I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.
The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.
Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process.
No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.
With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.
As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.
Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.
I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.
I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.
Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.
If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.
Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.