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~ The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction ... the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them. ~

Leo Tolstoy 1828

~ It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~

Earl Warren

~ 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

~ One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression ~

William Blake

~ Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe ~

Christine Lane

~ “Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them” ~

John Milton

~ Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. ~

Dryden, John

~ No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. ~

Euripides

~ It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity ~

Buddha Sutta-Pitaka

~ All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws ~

Voltaire

~ So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ~

Immanuel Kant

~ Among the mind's powers is one that comes of itself to many children and artists. It need not be lost, to the end of his days, by anyone who has ever had it. This is the power of taking delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe. ~

Charles E Montague 1867

~ There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. ~

Alfred Adler 1870

~ Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. ~

John F. Kennedy

~ The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ~

Lao Tzu

~ Fond of doctors, little health, Fond of lawyers, little wealth ~

Proverb

~ 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

~ In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ~

Immanuel Kant

~ Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression ~

William Blake

~ It is untrue that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality; its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. ~

Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues

~ It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. ~

Kofi Annan

~ ìAm I going home to idleness? No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its aspirations yet, and it will work, for it has a law unto itself. Idleness is one thing, doing is another.î ~

Lew Wallace

~ What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black. ~

Robert F. Kennedy

~ Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. ~

John Adams

~ If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws ~

Edward Abbey

~ You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; right derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe ~

John Adams

~ Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy ~

Louis Brandeis

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