"The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law."
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"Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities."
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"I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can find NO exceptions: Where the State prevents a free market, by banning any form of goods or services, consumer demand will create a black market for those goods or services, at vastly higher prices. Can YOU think of a single exception to this law?"
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"The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest."
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"Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing."
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"The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws."
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"The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN."
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"Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving."
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"Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried."
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"Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent."
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"God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone."
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"The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy."
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"There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end."
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"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal."
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"Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people."
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"The more laws, the less justice."
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"Law stands mute in the midst of arms."
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"But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable."
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"Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers."
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"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature."
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