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  • Under the law, even the best failed. Under grace, even the worst can be saved! -- Joseph Prince
  • Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish." -- Italo Svevo
  • Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly. -- Ed Rendell
  • Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author -- Thomas Jefferson
  • I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
  • Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history. -- Jim Cooper
  • We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. -- Cofer Black
  • Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. -- Ronald Reagan
  • President Obama has created the image of an America under President Bush that routinely violated international law. -- Ben Shapiro
  • All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law. -- Andy Rooney
  • In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. -- Eric Liu
  • You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws. -- Jesse Ventura
  • The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept. -- Carolyn Maloney
  • Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening. -- Thomas Ken
  • Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting. -- Jack Markell
  • The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter. -- John Bright
  • Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. -- Charles Krauthammer
  • When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. -- John Marshall
  • 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
  • At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership. -- Barton Gellman
  • The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity. -- Gloria Allred
  • The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. -- Byron White
  • Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy. -- James Bovard
  • Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult. -- Richard Engel
  • Love is the law, love under will. -- Aleister Crowley
  • I prefer law to war under all circumstances. -- Benjamin B. Ferencz
  • Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • It (marijuana) will still be legal under federal law. -- Dianne Feinstein
  • Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven. -- Laozi
  • Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law. -- Joseph Sobran
  • Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality. -- Rashid al-Ghannushi
  • I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law. -- Bill Shorten
  • The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges. -- Anatole France
  • Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law. -- Bernard Lewis
  • Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle. -- Max Anders
  • The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges. -- Anatole France
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  • The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law. -- Edward Coke
  • Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock. -- Henny Youngman
  • It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. -- Confucius
  • Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star. -- Booker T. Washington
  • The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • The goal is the developed Kingdom of God, the New Jerusalem, a world order under God's law. -- R.J. Rushdoony
  • Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals. -- Vaughn Walker
  • I assume I can give you a letter from a big law firm saying that we're under audit. -- Donald Trump
  • Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! -- Jean Racine
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  • Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned. -- Fred Upton
  • Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. -- Barack Obama
  • There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges. -- Jo Walton
  • Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather? -- Suzanne La Follette
  • I know that I cannot take responsibility for other people. We are all under the law of our own consciousness. -- Louise Hay
  • Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy". -- Thomas Sowell
  • There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. -- Larry Wall
  • There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. -- Charles de Secondat
  • Under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases. -- Ben Bernanke
  • If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law. -- Harry S. Truman
  • Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. -- Cat Stevens
  • We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. -- William Howard Taft
  • Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom. -- R.J. Rushdoony
  • The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth. -- Paul Johnson
  • Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. -- Alice Paul
  • O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
  • Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy. -- F. Sionil Jose
  • Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. -- Augustine of Hippo
  • Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law." -- Augustine of Hippo
  • Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law. -- Brigitte Bardot
  • No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win. -- Oriana Fallaci
  • Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. -- Augustine of Hippo
  • I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law -- Woody Allen
  • A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice. -- Anthony Lewis
  • The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. -- Anatole France
  • My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time. -- Garrison Keillor
  • In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is. -- Bashar al-Assad
  • I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color. -- Hillary Clinton
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  • Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law? -- Edward Kennedy
  • Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law. -- Ambrose
  • Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty? -- Edward Kennedy
  • In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists -- Mike Pence
  • In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists. -- Mike Pence
  • For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. -- Paul the Apostle
  • They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law. -- Tom Gjelten
  • The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases. -- Joel Garreau
  • Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity. -- Henry Adams
  • It is essential that we aggressively pursue all criminal offenders, especially those who commit these heinous crimes against women - and seek the maximum penalties under the law. -- Donald Trump
  • I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. -- Paul Martin
  • Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers. -- Kofi Annan
  • The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully. -- Aristotle
  • 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
  • While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. -- Ethan Allen
  • Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough. -- Ben Stein
  • Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures. -- Narendra Modi
  • If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend. -- Sonia Sotomayor
  • World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable. -- U Thant
  • We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action. -- Jon Meacham
  • The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth. -- Ken Starr
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