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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Law

"MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation."

Men Law Feelings
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Law

"I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government), it would become the most corrupt government on the earth."

Believe Government Law
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Law

"The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind."

Mind Law Religious
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Law

"By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy."

Men Law Enemy
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Law

"Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise."

Law Exercise Integrity
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Law

"A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man."

Men Law Rights
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Law

"I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another."

Law Independent Generations
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Law

"I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know."

People Country Law
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Law

"Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him."

Men Law Civil Rights
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Law

"Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it."

Giving Law Liberty
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Tim Robbins Actor, Director
Law

"Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust."

Mean Law Unjust
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Tom Allen Politician
Law

"They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways."

Law Rights Hippie
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Tony Burke Politician
Law

"No doubt, you've got a parliament now - I mean, Malcolm Turnbull says he'll work with the parliament he's got. He's got a parliament where a majority of the members of parliament want that law to be changed. He's got a parliament where there's a majority in each House who have publicly said they want to have a Royal Commission into banks."

Mean Law House
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Troy Walker Football Player
Law

"Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise every way possible. And with a good legal argument, you have to see all sides to get the best line of argument for your client. Law school made me a better comic, and comedy has made me a better public speaker."

Writing School Law
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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Law

"My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn."

Law Order Dorms
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Rich Fulcher Actor, Comedian
Law

"I went right to Chicago to do improv [after law school], but I wish I had gone, "Let me just bypass this law thing." I mean, sure, it helps you read a contract, but I can read a contract regardless. It's just common sense, contracts."

Mean School Law
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