Quotes with law-makers

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  • Edmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Barbara Jordan There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
    Source: Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Eric Butterworth There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Francis Bacon There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
    Source: Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara Castle There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Ben Hecht There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Cass Sunstein This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Boethius Thus, where'er the drift of hazard
    Seems most unrestrained to flow,
    Chance herself is reined and bitted,
    And the curb of law doth know.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Oscar Wilde To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and underage children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bob Dylan To live outside the law, you must be honest.
    Source: Absolutely Sweet Marie
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • Arthur Henderson To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Mark Twain To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lionel Tiger To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.
    Lionel Tiger
     
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  • George Earle Buckle To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
    George Earle Buckle
    English editor and biographer (1854 - 1935)
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  • Richard P. Feynman Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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