"The laws of a state change with the changing times."
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"This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more."
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"The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water."
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"Making it a valid law to learn by suffering."
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"How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions?"
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"Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public."
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"There are no laws of nature; there are habits of nature."
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"I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks."
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"I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association."
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"Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones."
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"How shall not man, whose nature stands bound up with forces vast, innate with strength, reveal his life In mould of holiest cast. His law is action: gates of power stand open in his view; a restless soul, a holy zeal, shall give him entrance through."
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"Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny."
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"What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it."
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"The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law."
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"To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves."
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"If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18)."
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"Whether the Bible is Law or Gospel depends on the spiritual condition of the one hearing it. If someone is regenerate and loves God, then the whole Bible is Gospel to him. If someone is unregenerate and hates God, the whole Bible is Law to him, the whole thing condemns him."
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"Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling."
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"We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails."
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"I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score."
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