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Part of the Brexit debate was about control, having a say over our laws and money and letting politicians stand up for what the people voted for, not signing away our sovereignty.
Esther McVey
People
Money
Debate
Control
Politicians
Our
Say
Signing
About
Laws
Having
Part
Over
Voted
Up
Sovereignty
Stand
Stand Up
Brexit
Away
Letting
The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections.
Eugene Jarecki
You
Money
Politicians
Say
Immediately
Corrections
Out
Run
Laws
More
Tougher
Put
Come
Well
Taller
Does
Fences
Where
Rhetoric
Happens
Public
Sentencing
Appeal
Thing
Needed
Laws are to be respected.
Fabio Lanzoni
Respected
Laws
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
Faye Wattleton
Mother
Father
Country
Our
Bad
Poster
About
Laws
Segregated
He
Mississippi
Were
Conditions
According
Children
Public
Race
Really
Speaks
Alabama
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Language
Will
Strictly
Those
Recognise
Restricted
General
Laws
Rational
Operating
Another
Linguistics
Branch
Manner
Separating
Languages
Phenomena
Universally
Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.
Fidel Castro
Dignity
Custody
Offended
Country
National
Way
Muslim
Obama
Religious
Laws
Conceal
Almost
Executed
Wives
Been
His
Traditions
Authorities
Front
Children
Inhabitants
Who
Pakistan
Now
Whose
Million
Violated
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon
Worse
Must
Torture
Laws
Beware
Judges
Than
Inference
Strained
Hard
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nature
Made
Must
Laws
Economic
Lay
Fact
Human
Human Beings
Hold
Beings
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
Franz Grillparzer
Myself
You
People
Before
Relinquish
Laws
Unto
Passing
Different
Different People
Your
Slave
It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
People
Obey
Give
Laws
Prince
For The People
His
Mandate
Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
Gabrielle Giffords
Life
Partner
Our
Address
Later
Though
Marry
Laws
Dating
Abuse
Couples
Been
Updated
Choosing
Many
Even
Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
Gail Collins
You
Change
Women
Unless
Guys
Laws
Course
Subject
Up
Trying
Whenever
Want
Workings
Internal
Bring
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
Gary Johnson
Country
Forcing
Criminal
Our
Prohibition
Out
Guns
Laws
Put
Current
Stop
Element
Disputes
Streets
Played
Need
Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.
Gary Johnson
Great
Freedom
Care
Pain
State
Approach
Several
Religious
Religious Freedom
Laws
Given
Exceptions
Attempts
Accompanied
Sensitivity
I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
Gary Weiss
Laws
Who
Thinks
I want almost no laws, I want the smallest government possible. I don't want anyone telling anyone what to do.
Gavin McInnes
Government
Possible
Telling
Laws
Smallest
Almost
Want
Anyone
The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?
Geoff Dyer
Reality
World
Space
Own
Cinematic
Defy
Physical
Laws
Another
Surely
Wonder
Landscape
Gravity
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.
Geoffrey West
You
Behavior
Enormous
Complex
Complex System
System
Evolved
City
Components
Emergence
Constrain
Laws
Could
Like
Without
Order
Them
Organism
Resilient
Number
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
George Boole
Knowledge
World
Mind
Thought
Relations
Secret
Those
Ourselves
High
Object
Laws
Perceptive
Rational
Attained
Faculties
Merely
Beyond
Does
Matured
Unfold
Which
Stand
Need
First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.
George Crook
Politics
Government
First
Those
Out
Indian
Indians
Give
Laws
Take
Ballot
Same
Whites
Second
Third
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
George Crook
Try
Will
Country
Past
Complete
Our
Immediately
Must
Indian
Civil
Indians
Laws
Civilization
Shame
Take
True
Soon
Equal
Force
Him
Source
Question
Just
Form
Dishonor
Patriots
Thing
Guaranteeing
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
George Edward Moore
Good
Will
Statements
Moral
Kinds
Laws
Merely
Effects
Certain
Actions
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
George Saunders
Love
Kindness
Culture
Fear
Local
Hunger
Reliable
Details
Constant
Exaltation
Rises
Laws
Absence
Merely
Periodic
Up
Human
Predictable
Naturally
Universal
Beloved
Need
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
George Savile
Three
Those
Viz
Laws
Generally
Execute
Make
Sort
Understood
Break
Them
Persons
Who
Suffer
Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.
George Shearing
Mind
Whatever
Think
Bass
Harmony
Easier
Wilson
Obeying
Laws
Come
Without
Said
Line
Any
While
Little
Much
Your
Little While
Play
Teddy
States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush
Life
Ending
Practice
Live
Otherwise
States
Laws
Could
Particularly
Enact
End
Should
Inhumane
Right
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