"If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around."
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"You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself."
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"Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies."
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"Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them."
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"I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government."
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"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."
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"The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low."
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"Race has no place in American life or law."
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"That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent."
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"The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be."
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"In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity."
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""Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account this richer meaning, the Establishment Clause, in banning laws that concern religion, especially prohibits those that pay homage to religion."
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"A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold."
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"To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal."
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"He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane."
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"Ronald Reagan just signed the new tax law. But I think he was in Hollywood too long. He signed it, 'Best wishes, Ronald Reagan.'"
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"At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one."
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"Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law."
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"Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death."
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"There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust."
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