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Lawful worship consists in obedience alone. -- John Calvin
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed. -- Samuel Johnson
O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating. -- William Shakespeare
Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him. -- Cassandra Clare
Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense. I believe that we will prevail. -- Wayne LaPierre
What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky. -- Empedocles
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
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. -- William Penn
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. -- Robert E. Lee
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. -- Gary North
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. -- Quintilian
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. -- Miguel de Cervantes
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. -- Joseph Conrad
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. -- Anton Chekhov
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective. -- Naomi Wolf
Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern. -- Mohammed Morsi
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. -- Josh Billings
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice? -- Frederic Bastiat
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. -- John White Geary
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. -- H. L. Mencken
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. -- Immanuel Kant
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. -- Thomas a Kempis
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. -- John Ruskin
I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman. -- Ziggy Marley
We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people. -- John O. Brennan
If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court? -- Anne Hutchinson
During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights in a lawful and appropriate manner, and I believe it is important that we provide individuals with specific reassurance that we value those rights. -- Colleen Hanabusa
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. -- Thomas Carlyle
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight. -- Daniel Gilbert
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression. -- Jed S. Rakoff
If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun. -- Malcolm X
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. -- Jean Racine
A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation. -- Henry Arthur Jones
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful. -- C. S. Lewis
All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. -- James Burgh
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. -- William Golding
I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value. -- Allard K. Lowenstein
It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything. -- Lucian
What is lawful is not always identical to what is right. -- Ian Mcewan
If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy. -- Barack Obama
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one. -- Guy de Maupassant
the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife. -- Emily James Smith Putnam
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. -- David Boies
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? -- Matthew McConaughey
We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process. -- Barack Obama
Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live. -- Dorothy Parker
It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri. -- Ovid
The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech. -- Anthony Kennedy
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. -- Henry Ward Beecher
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. -- Frederic Bastiat
For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground. -- John Dryden
Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold. -- Thomas Gray
The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means. -- Brian Crozier
I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways. -- Eliza Lynn Linton
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. -- Francis Bacon
Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes. -- Michelle Malkin
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive. -- Aristotle
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners? -- Joan of Arc
It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks -- Dana Perino
Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court? -- Anne Hutchinson
Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life. -- Samuel Johnson
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.] -- Ovid
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one. -- Margaret Sanger
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. -- David Hume
Unfortunately, changing forms of Internet communication are quickly outpacing laws and technology designed to allow for the lawful intercept of communication content. -- James Comey
The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things. -- Roger Williams
The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning. -- Ian Barbour
Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law. -- Henry Campbell Black
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship. -- Spencer Bachus
If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause. -- Joseph McCabe
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
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power. -- Samuel Johnson
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered ... -- Freya Stark
Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means. -- Jeremy Bentham
The establishment of our new lawful immigration system then and only then will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals who remain. -- Donald Trump
Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them. -- Jeff Sessions
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure. -- John Calvin
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. -- Rudy Giuliani
There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance. -- Benjamin B. Ferencz
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. -- John Quincy Adams
The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity. -- Anthony Kennedy
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction." -- Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
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
stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows. -- Martha Gellhorn
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due. -- Pierre Bayle
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason. -- John Knox
Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful. -- Cyprian
If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained. -- William Penn
[Donald Trump] said we're going to have a big door. He means lawful immigration will continue, but we're not going to allow the nation to be at risk in this fashion. -- Jeff Sessions
I say nothing, not one word, from beginning to end, and neither does he. If it were lawful for a woman to hate her husband, I would hate him as a rapist. -- Philippa Gregory
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. -- Dorothy Parker
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. -- William Cowper
Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right. -- C. S. Lewis
I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929) -- Albert Einstein
Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets. -- Enver Masud
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science. -- Hippocrates

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