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  • Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral. -- Joseph Farah
  • There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. -- John Rawls
  • Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice. -- Mary B. Harris
  • A government of laws, and not of men. -- John Adams
  • Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
  • Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time. -- Narendra Modi
  • Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent. -- Immanuel Kant
  • Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government. -- Aristotle
  • The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations. -- Jamie Dimon
  • Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. -- Bertrand Russell
  • The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws. -- Tacitus
  • Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. -- Major Owens
  • Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws. -- Learned Hand
  • Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power. -- Thomas More
  • Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice. -- Mencius
  • Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
  • Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
  • In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property. -- Alvin Francis Poussaint
  • What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws? -- Jeff Cooper
  • Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call. -- George W. Bush
  • The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals. -- John C. Calhoun
  • Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death. -- John Ruskin
  • Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes. -- Pat Robertson
  • The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found. -- Thomas Paine
  • We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down. -- Murray Kempton
  • Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people. -- Archibald Cox
  • No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws. -- Thaddeus Stevens
  • Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. -- Albert Einstein
  • In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures. -- Narendra Modi
  • Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. -- Xenophon
  • As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly. -- Jo Ann Davis
  • No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' -- John Adams
  • A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property. -- Daniel Webster
  • The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site. -- Warren Farrell
  • The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments. -- Rand Paul
  • USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation. -- Steven Magee
  • If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient." -- Gore Vidal
  • The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. -- Charles Hodge
  • A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler. -- William Greider
  • When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud... the ground is shifting. -- John Battelle
  • When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed. -- Chuck Grassley
  • The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. -- Thaddeus Stevens
  • The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity. -- Edmund Yates
  • [E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence. -- Tom C. Clark
  • All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses. -- Theodore Parker
  • The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. -- Bill Gates
  • Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty. -- Alexander Hamilton
  • The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
  • The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men. -- John Adams
  • Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity. -- Ilana Mercer
  • Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government. -- Reince Priebus
  • National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account. -- Al Franken
  • Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior. -- Vint Cerf
  • It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. -- Andrew Jackson
  • It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States -- Andrew Jackson
  • We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery. -- Olaf Stapledon
  • Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems. -- Sandra Postel
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