“ Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ The universe has no favourites; it is supremely just, and gives to every man his rightful earnings. ”
- James Allen- Copy
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“ It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning. ”
- Ron Wyden- Copy
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“ The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad. ”
- Napoleon III- Copy
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“ I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. ”
- Julia Roberts- Copy
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“ What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values. ”
- Edward Johnson- Copy
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“ I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life. ”
- Paul Bremer- Copy
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“ When towns have sent out suicide bombers to fire incessantly and indiscriminately into Jewish communities, they become legitimate targets. ”
- Jack Schwartz- Copy
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“ He has impeccable legal credentials and a well-grounded conservative judicial philosophy — just what so many, including me, consider most important. ”
- David Vitter- Copy
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“ Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ She has the great misfortune of following Elvis, if you will, in John Roberts. We may not have another person come forward like him for some time: just a brilliant legal scholar, a fabulous constitutional lawyer. ”
- Sam Brownback- Copy
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“ There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse cannot make a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful. ”
- Prophet Mohammad- Copy
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“ There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. ”
- Anton Chekhov- Copy
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“ No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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