| "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 Ewing Stevenson |
| "The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose." »James Earl Jones |
| "As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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 law." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "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." »G. C. Lichtenberg |
| "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." »Edmund Burke |
| "For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence." »George Barrell Cheever |
| "All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need." »Harvey Cox |
| "I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine." »Newell Dwight Hillis |
| "In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle." »Colin Wilson |
| "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." »John Selden |
| "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be." »Raymond Chandler |
| "You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law." »John and Brand, Josh Falsey |
| "It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence." »Marquis de Vauvenargues |
| "With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke." »Will Rogers |
| "Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind." »John W. Hanley |
| "Necessity has no law." »William Langland |
| "McCabe's Law Nobody has to do anything." »Charles McCabe |
| "To live outside the law you must be honest." »Bob Dylan |
| "The law is a horrible business." »Clarence Darrow |
| "This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying." »William Kunstler |
| "Law is mind without reason." »Aristotle |
| "The law must be stable, but it must not stand still." »Roscoe Pound |
| "The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong." »Cicero |
| "Law is order, and good law is good order." »Aristotle |
| "Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it." »Glaser and Way |
| "The people's good is the highest law." »Cicero |
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