Unlawful Quotes

• If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Law, Should, Force

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

  James Madison

  Hazards, Branches, May

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.288

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• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Yield, Law, Sick

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

  Orrin Hatch

  Technology, Practice, Competition

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• In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.

  Bob Ney

  People, Arms, Criminals

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• The great events of the world take place in the brain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brain, Events, World

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.16, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Hands, Promise

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.94, Penguin Books India

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• The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

  Potter Stewart

  Truth, Speaks Out, Law

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• The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Mean, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  "Not Real? Not Porn" by David G. Savage, ABA Journal, Volume 88, June 2002.

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• The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!

  Alan Keyes

  Believe, Army, Order

  Alan Keyes's Speech at Rally in Defense of Marriage in Boston, Massachusetts, www.keyesarchives.com. May 14, 2004.

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• He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.

  Muhammad

  Order, Doe, Littles

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• In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

  Preet Bharara

  Black, Information, Financial

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• It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Catholic, Add, Scripture

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• It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Religious, Writing, Men

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.113, TAN Books

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• If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Rights, Two

  Lysander Spooner (1847). “The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second”, p.8

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• Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

  Philip Sidney

  Desire, Impossible, Enjoy

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.17

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• [Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

  John Locke

  Taken, Individual, Force

  John Locke (2016). “Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.103, Oxford University Press

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• As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Law, Civilization, Progress

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• It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

  Frederick Douglass

  Slave, Teach, Wells

  Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.70, Penguin

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• Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Rights, Forever, Poison

  1857 The Professor, ch.20.

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• I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Law, Parent, Married

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• Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reason, Natural, Ill

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.666, 谷月社

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• If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Simple, Mind, Taste

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  John Locke

  Government, Libertarian Party, People

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• These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

  Mike Lee

  Country, Special, Immigration

  "On Senate Immigraton Proposal, Bipartisan Sponsors Claim Momentum For Uphill Battle" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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