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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. -- Mark Twain
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. -- George Washington
Laws die, books never. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Laws change. Conscience doesn't. -- Sophie Scholl
Laws are inoperative in war -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laws are subordinate to custom. -- Plautus
Laws can't control the lawless. -- Wayne LaPierre
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. -- Louis XIV
Laws without morals are in vain. -- Benjamin Franklin
Laws change; people die; the land remains. -- Abraham Lincoln
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. -- Edmund Burke
Laws without enforced consequences are merely suggestions. -- Ron Brackin
Laws are the silent assessors of God. -- William Rounseville Alger
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Some Laws were meant to be broken. -- Cassandra Clare
Laws are not made for the good. -- Socrates
Laws are silent in time of war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination. -- Hillary Clinton
The shot from Laws was precise but wide. -- Alan Parry
Laws can discover sin, but not remove it -- John Milton
Laws are dumb in the midst of arms. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laws that oppress people have no moral authority -- Richard Stallman
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. -- Seneca the Younger
Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes. -- Rod McKuen
Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them. -- Sophocles
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. -- Orson Scott Card
Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law. -- Paul Levine
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt -- Tacitus
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. -- Frank Herbert
Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters -- Alvin Martin
Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. -- Thomas Jefferson
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition. -- Rudolf Virchow
Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies. -- Hillary Clinton
Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality. -- Hillary Clinton
Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent. -- Immanuel Kant
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. -- Elbert Hubbard
Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time. -- Narendra Modi
Laws are chains to the many, and whips to the few. -- Jarod Kintz
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war). -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. -- Hugo Black
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious -- Hugo Black
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them. -- Suzanne La Follette
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. -- Otto von Bismarck
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law. -- Benvenuto Cellini
Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it. -- Samuel Johnson
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws. -- Otto von Bismarck
Dont count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it. -- Terri Sewell
Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it. -- Terri Sewell
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind. -- Francis Bacon
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve. -- Clarence Darrow
Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.' -- Joel Miller
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil. -- Otto von Bismarck
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power. -- Thomas More
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. -- Honore de Balzac
Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them. -- John Updike
Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws. -- Huey Newton
A government of laws, and not of men. -- John Adams
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. -- Barbara Kingsolver
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. -- Jules Verne
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Laozi
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. -- Kofi Annan
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. -- Sivananda
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. -- Plato
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. -- Henry David Thoreau
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. -- Alfred A. Montapert
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good. -- Simon Mainwaring
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. -- Thomas Jefferson
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God. -- Stephen Hawking
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. -- Frederic Bastiat
Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family. -- John Lewis
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. -- John Marshall
Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. -- Martha Griffiths
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems. -- Jack Kevorkian
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. -- Stan Brakhage
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures? -- Martin Gardner
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries. -- Jandy Nelson
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved. -- Paul Dirac
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. -- Steve Jobs
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past. -- George Crook
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby. -- Michael Steele
Greatness breaks laws. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Love knoweth no laws. -- John Lyly
More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Bad laws make bad customs. -- Jane Aiken Hodge
All things obey fixed laws. -- Lucretius
Petty laws breed great crimes. -- Ouida
All just laws condemn cruelty. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Where laws end, tyranny begins. -- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Nature never breaks her own laws. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The laws of decency enforce themselves. -- Louise Colet
A s laws multiply, injustice increases. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Change the narrative, change the laws. -- Ani DiFranco
Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons! -- Pompey
Ethics are more important than laws. -- Wynton Marsalis
All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly
we can't abolish prejudice through laws ... -- Belva Ann Lockwood
What can laws do without morals? -- Benjamin Franklin
We are a nation of laws. -- Barack Obama
Unjust laws aren't laws at all. -- Saint Augustine
We are a country of laws. -- Donald Trump
America is a country of laws. -- Donald Trump
Bans are laws for the stupid. -- Henning von Tresckow
Those who fear men like laws. -- Luc de Clapiers
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Good morals lead to good laws. -- Chuck Norris
The more laws, the less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
During war, the laws are silent. -- Quintus Tullius Cicero

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