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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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
Rights
Equality
Liberty
Law
Will
Action
Add
Others
Our
Tyrant
Rightful
Drawn
Individual
Equal
Equal Rights
Because
Within
Around
Always
Limits
According
Often
Us
Violates
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
Justice
Constitution
Women
Law
Men
Men And Women
Society
Our
Constitute
Lawyers
Majesty
Protected
Protector
Glory
Courts
Nor
Officers
Just
Themselves
Created
Who
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
Democracy
Corruption
Law
Debate
Power
Accountability
Rule
Rule Of Law
Must
Solutions
Indignation
Through
Open
Share
Sharing
Abuse
Built
Subjugation
Information
Societies
Enlightenment
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
Life
Law
Everyday Life
Everyday
Rule
Way
Rule Of Law
Clearest
Happened
Us
Means
Show
Recall
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
God
Great
Nature
Genius
Measurement
Law
Sky
Made
First
Own
Our
Ourselves
Out
Follow
Make
Limit
Always
Want
Eternity
Then
Us
Created
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
Government
Nature
You
Injustice
Legal
Law
Say
Machine
Another
Break
Agent
Then
Requires
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.
Justice
Progress
Law
Become
Dams
Dangerously
Law And Order
Structured
Purpose
Fail
Block
Exist
Establishing
Order
Social
Social Progress
Flow
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.
Injustice
Respect
Legal
Reality
Law
Submit
Community
Unjust
Penalty
Willingly
Tells
Individual
Highest
Over
Him
Arouse
Accepts
Imprisonment
Order
Breaks
Who
Expressing
Conscience
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
Freedom
Law
States
Abolish
Restrain
No Law
End
Where
Capable
Created
Beings
Preserve
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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