"The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature."
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"If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise."
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"Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us]."
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"When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?"
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"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law."
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes."
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"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."
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"Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them."
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"The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands."
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"Arms and laws do not flourish together."
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"Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice."
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"Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle"
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"Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws."
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"To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing."
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"The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.so, peaceful suffering and passive resistance and all of that stuff is all right maybe in India somewhere, where the people in India outnumber the whites - about a million to one.But here in America, when you tell that's like an elephant sitting down on a - on a mouse in India with [Mahatma] Gandhi."
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"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
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"It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations."
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"Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements."
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"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."
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"Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor."
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