Laws Quotes
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Government Quotes
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one`s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Bill Lovejoy
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Bill Lovejoy
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
Cicero
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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
Cicero
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The people`s good is the highest law.
Cicero
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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
Cicero
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
Aristotle
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle
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I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
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Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should b...
Abraham Lincoln
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Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obe...
Adm C. Turner Joy
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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from pl...
Adina Rosenbaum
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for...
Adam Quinton
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that`s all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
Abdelmounaim Addas
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In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Aaron McKie
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because `tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
Adam Castle
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
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A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
Aaron Martens
