"Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular."
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"A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law."
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"Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?"
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"Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger."
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"Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same."
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"A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed."
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"Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves."
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"What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be."
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"Necessity knows no law."
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"A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined."
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"We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation of man; must reject appearances, which may be false, though specious; and must search for those rules, which are, on the whole, most useful and beneficial."
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"The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates."
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"The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife."
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"The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law."
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"Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe."
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"Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free."
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"There can be no peace without law."
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"Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality."
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"When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma."
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"Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment."
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