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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
The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations. -- Jamie Dimon
Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. -- Gerald R. Ford
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law. -- Jon Oringer
Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector. -- Nina Easton
We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government. -- Timothy Murphy
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. -- Albert Einstein
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
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
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
However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable. -- John Boyd Orr
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. -- Ted Cruz
One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation. -- Ted Cruz
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands. -- John L. Lewis
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
As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to make laws and to repeal or amend them. -- Samuel Freeman Miller
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves. -- Lysander Spooner
I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit. -- Steven Hatfill
It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so. -- Paul Singer
Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy. -- Edmund Burke
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law. -- Goldwin Smith
Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. -- Kim Stanley
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. -- Bertrand Russell
The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree. -- Craig Ferguson
There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law. -- Chris Stewart
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. -- Stokely Carmichael
The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget. -- Ludwig von Mises
I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana -- Ron Paul
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. -- Louis D. Brandeis
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. -- Al Gore
Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us. -- Thomas Sowell
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. -- Abraham Lincoln
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. -- Herbert Hoover
I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things. -- John Bolton
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. -- Frederic Bastiat
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government. -- Isabel Paterson
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. -- Alexander Hamilton
Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve. -- John Pugsley
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. -- Clarence Thomas
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. -- Thomas Sowell
A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust. -- James Madison
Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not. -- Michael Lind
There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power. -- Lewis Black
He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. -- George Rivorie
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law. -- John Galt
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The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality. -- Ralph Nader
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. -- Abraham Lincoln
There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them. -- Lord Byron
He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. -- B. Margoliouth
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. -- Ray Stannard Baker
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
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it. -- Barton Gellman
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
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly. -- Vaclav Havel
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings. -- John D. Rockefeller
In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law. -- Kevin Systrom
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. -- Ida B. Wells
I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. -- Ted Cruz
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law? -- Paul Craig Roberts
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. -- Wendell Phillips
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Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal. -- Richard Curtis
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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore. -- Edwin Meese
When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty. -- Margaret Thatcher
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. -- Ezra Stiles
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order. -- Victoria Woodhull
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code. -- Randall Terry
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus. -- William A. Dembski
Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got. -- William J. Clinton
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression. -- Lysander Spooner
It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty. -- Jeremy Bentham
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice. -- Carl Hiaasen
What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens. -- Ted Cruz
The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government. -- Paul Craig Roberts
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. -- Henry David Thoreau
Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government. -- Philip Zimbardo
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order. -- Jurgen Habermas
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. -- William Hague
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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
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
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council." -- Charles Tupper
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. -- Charles Tupper
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
Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if prosecuted and conviction follows, results in punishment. -- Lawrence M. Friedman

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