“ Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
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“ Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them. ”
- Ward Becker- Copy
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“ I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute. ”
- Zoe Lofgren- Copy
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“ Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
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“ A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. ”
- Adam Clayton- Copy
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“ Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged — where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
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“ To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
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“ Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. ”
- Edward F. Halifax- Copy
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“ They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…? ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
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“ Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws. ”
- Konstantin Stanislavisky- Copy
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