"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free."
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"That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law"
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"The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected."
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"Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output."
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"I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all."
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"Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies."
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"Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul."
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"Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution."
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"You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns."
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"Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself"
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"[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men."
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"Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be."
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"The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree."
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"Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity."
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"The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven."
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"The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility."
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"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy."
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"To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law."
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"All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it."
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"Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress."
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