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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln
Best Legal Law Strictly Way Bad Best Way Get Enforce
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato
Life Music Soul Law Mind Imagination Universe Everything Moral Moral Law Charm Wings Gives Gaiety Flight
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. Ronald Reagan
Time Broken Law Every Society Every Time Guilty Must Restore Rather Individual Idea His Accountable Precept Than American Actions Each Each Individual Reject
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Aristotle
Best Man Justice Law Animals Worst Best Man He Noblest His Separated
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X
You Respect Obey Law Everyone Someone Puts Him Courteous His Hand Send Cemetery Peaceful
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
Life Future Change Law Past Those Only Miss Look Certain Who Present
There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. Sylvester Stallone
Alone Anger Hurt Natural People Karma Law Will Others Way Broke Out Go End Up Who Vindictive
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. Robert Kennedy
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Theodore Roosevelt
Man Obey Law Above Him Permission Nor Any Ask Below
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. Atifete Jahjaga
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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More law, less justice. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice Law More Less
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom Time Do The Right Thing Law Old Everybody Right Thing Eye Eye For An Eye About Blind Always Leaves The Right Thing Right Thing
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. Marcus Garvey
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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
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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
Man Rights Law Ethics Others Guilty Only He Doing Violates Thinks
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill
Politics You Respect Law Destroy Thousand Ten Regulations
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Voltaire
Nature Humanity Law First Tolerance Other Frailty Pardon Folly First Law Error Formed Us Each Let Us Consequence
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 D. Brandeis
Government Man People Law Example Become Every Our Anarchy Invites Unto Contempt Himself Becomes Breeds Teaches Whole Every Man
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Law Community Every Society Criminal Kind Law Enforcement Insists True Equally Gets Enforcement Deserves
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. John Locke
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. Saint Augustine
Me Law Unjust No Law Seems
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions. Antonio Villaraigosa
Me Law Police Politician Criminal Our Above No-One Priest Clear Police Officer Accountable Officer Actions
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