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• The good of the people is the greatest law.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, People, Lawyer

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• As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Democracy, Abiding, Citizens

  Speech in Chicago, Illinois, September 29, 1952.

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• Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  God, Men, Two

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• Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Heart, Men

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.112, Aristotle

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• Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Science, God's Creation

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.198

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• Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

  John Y. Campbell

  Prison, Said, Cases

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• Arms and laws do not flourish together.

  Julius Caesar

  Together, Arms

  Julius Caesar (1879). “Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars”

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• Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Rights, Land, Sound

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.202, Best Books on

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• Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

  Solon

  Party, Men, Break

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• All things obey fixed laws.

  Lucretius

  Fixed, All Things

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• It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

  Ronald Reagan

  Doors, Needs, May

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California”

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• Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.

  Barack Obama

  Brother, Gay, Journey

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Literature

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• Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, Humor, Masters

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a law, a unique nature participated in by all beings, in which this common participation produces a ground of common harmony.

  Zhuangzi

  Science, Unique, Common

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• Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Easy, Difficult

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.428, Vintage

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• Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

  Louis XIV

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• No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.

  Van Jones

  Above The Law

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• Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Sight, Limits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

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• The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter of experience and habit-but by the scope and accuracy of the individual laws to the discovery of which it eventually leads.

  Max Planck

  Science, Discovery, Ideas

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Majority Rule, Would Be

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Justice

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

  Rick Larsen

  Commitment, Fighting, Epidemics

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• Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.

  Florence Nightingale

  Tables, Causes, Facts

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.41, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The Secret: Law of Attraction

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Secret, Secret Law Of Attraction

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