Quotes with law-breakers

Quotes 121 till 140 of 415.

  • Angelina Grimke If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Charles Morgan If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
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  • William Law If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Arthur Eddington If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Addison Mizner Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • Calvin Coolidge In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Tacitus In all things there is a law of cycles.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Carolyn Maloney In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • James A. Froude In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Bela Lugosi In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Samuel Butler In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ben Shapiro In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Beth Ditto In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: 'That must be nice.'
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Northrop Frye In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Richard Whately In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Ben Shapiro In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, members of both the administration and the media trumpeted that Obama had received his long-sought mandate. Obamacare, Americans were told, was the law of the land. It could not be changed; it could not be stopped.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Barbara Olson In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
    The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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