"Judges should interpret the law, not make it."
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"Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony."
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"Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven."
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"All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom."
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"The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be."
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"Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law."
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"There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law."
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"I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them."
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"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts."
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"Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction."
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"Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit."
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"The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger."
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"This is a God-given right of any man.Anytime you have a man who is getting lynched, and what are his people supposed to do? Sit around and forgive the lyncher or wait on the United States government to go in and get the lyncher, like the United States government did in the case of, of Charles Mack Parker, and the FBI found who were the guilty lynchers, and right to this day, the FBI, the highest law enforcement body in the land, has yet to bring the lynchers of Mack Parker to justice?"
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"We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way."
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"I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his God-given rights and within - and he was also within his natural right, because first law of nature is self-preservation."
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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."
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"The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws."
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"Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather."
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"As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions paid ideological lip service to constraints deriving from religious or natural law doctrines, they reserved to some constitutionally-defined body or person the right to interpret these doctrines."
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"It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life."
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