"Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite."
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"Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth."
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"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."
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"If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway."
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"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."
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"For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms."
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"True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely."
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"Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature."
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"In times of war, the law falls silent."
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"The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]"
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"Let the force of arms give place to law and justice."
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"Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children."
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"What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law."
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"Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?"
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"A s laws multiply, injustice increases."
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"Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong."
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"In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled on its own terms. It can't be handled as you go out of that and go back into natural institutions or natural law or divine revelation. Something outside of the system has to tell you the system has gone wrong."
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"The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not equality in a family; there never is. And yet for that reason, the family is condemned as patriarchal. The goal of this sort of legislation is about the destruction of the traditional family, not just marriage."
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"The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause."
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"The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim."
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