Quotes 101 till 120 of 240.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid
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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
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Laws are never as effective as habits.
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Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.
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Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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