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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
Good
People
Bad People
Will
Good People
Way
Tell
Bad
Responsibly
Find
Laws
Around
While
Them
Act
Need
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
History
You
Political
Party
Farm
Programs
Our
Security
Would
Abolish
Laws
Attempt
Insurance
Hear
Political History
Labor
Political Party
Unemployment
Any
Again
Social
Should
Social Security
Eliminate
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
Strength
Natural
Sometimes
Motherhood
Laws
Greater
Mother's Day
Than
Natural Laws
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Hope
Government
Strength
Business
Challenge
Defiance
Country
Birth
Our
Corporations
Trial
Dare
Laws
Shall
Aristocracy
Crush
Bid
Which
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
Government
Impossible
Crime
Men
Power
Down
Live
Enough
Criminals
Laws
Only
Well
Without
Makes
Becomes
Crack
Any
Breaking
Them
Many
Things
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
Great
Man
Control
Laws
Greater
Conduct
Controls
Lesser
Right
Right Conduct
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
You
Solitude
Will
Poverty
Universe
Weakness
Laws
Simpler
Simplify
Nor
Your
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
Thomas Sowell
People
Immigration
Immigration Laws
Laws
Only
Terms
How
Discussed
Break
Them
Help
Help People
Who
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Abigail Adams
Rebellion
Care
Will
Ourselves
Determined
Laws
Voice
Attention
Bound
Particular
Any
Representation
Ladies
Hold
Which
Paid
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac
Legal
Spider
Big
Web
Laws
Through
Pass
Caught
Get
Which
Little
Flies
Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.
Buddha
Obedience
Righteousness
Better
Laws
Than
Gods
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
Legal
Laws
Small
Through
Catch
Like
May
Break
Which
Flies
Cobweb
Wasps
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nature
Knowledge
Cause
Invention
Own
Logic
Laws
True
She
True Knowledge
Without
Nor
Source
Effect
Her
Necessity
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Susan B. Anthony
Women
Equality
Will
Complete
Lawmakers
Laws
Never
Until
Make
Elect
Themselves
Help
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky
Generation
Words
Language
Free
Creation
Interpretation
Laws
Varied
Involves
Principles
Fixed
Infinitely
Process
Which
Manner
Use
Used
Even
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison
People
Will
Made
Men
Own
Laws
Read
Understood
Cannot
Avail
Little
Choice
Incoherent
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand
Savage
Freedom
Privacy
Man
Progress
Men
Free
Society
Setting
Ruled
Tribe
Laws
Civilization
Toward
His
Existence
Process
Public
Whole
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson
Love
Great
Rights
People
Liberty
Mechanic
Men
Country
Nothing
Bone
States
Laws
Equal
Equal Rights
Laborer
Form
Body
Farmer
Planter
Who
United
United States
Desire
A government of laws, and not of men.
John Adams
Government
Men
Laws
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire
Before
Virtue
Slight
Tyrants
Destroying
Some
Shade
Laws
Support
Always
Them
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
Great
Nature
Our
Laws
Misery
Sin
Institutions
Caused
Poor
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu
Will
Made
Thieves
Prominent
Laws
More
Order
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa
Nation
Randomly
States
Laws
Written
Badly
Enforced
United
United States
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Thomas Sowell
You
Strong
Gun
Gun Control
Control
Rates
Data
Laws
Only
Countries
Lower
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.
Ellen Key
Strength
Patriotism
Power
Country
Nationalism
Other
Other Countries
Honour
Seeks
Laws
Only
Through
Idea
Countries
Knows
Glory
Permanently
Still
Endanger
Whereas
Create
Means
Regulations
International
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.
Michael Steele
You
People
Bad People
Gun
Gun Control
Bad Things
Country
Control
Way
Recognize
Bad
Citizens
Find
Weapons
Law-Abiding
Law-Abiding Citizens
Laws
Protect
Doing
Person
Going
Hobby
Them
Themselves
Enforce
Who
Uses
Things
Need
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