Quotes with law-makers

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  • Samuel Johnson Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Cromwell Necessity has no law.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Publilius Syrus Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Bertrand Russell Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Emma Goldman No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Thomas Hobbes No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Euripides No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Carrie Chapman Catt No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
    Carrie Chapman Catt
    American women's suffrage leader (1859 - 1947)
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  • Bob Woodward Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • William Law Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Albert Einstein Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • John W. Draper Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
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