"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions."

Law, Reason, Nature, Justice

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"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions."

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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Law, Modesty, Statesman

"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Law, Risk, Hope, Struggle

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Law, Laws, Universe, Unworthy

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Law, Obedience

"Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Law, Property, Nature, Obvious, Reality

"It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Law, Order, Justice, Authority

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Law, Flies, Laws

"Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Law, Humor, Justice, Truth, Surprise

"Every citizen is free to perform any act which does not hamper the equal freedom of another. No law shall forbid the performance of any act, which does not damage the physical or economic welfare of any other person."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Law, Freedom, Equality, Justice

"An older man who seems to be the leader of the Jesus Tshirt group says that the Bible forbids abortion in its commandment "Thou shall not kill.But being in the Bible Belt, people really know their Bible, and an older woman cites Exodus 21:22"23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies.Thus the Bible is making clear, that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Law, Life, Bible, Ethics

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

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"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

"Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is."

"It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws."

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

"Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!"

"Every citizen is free to perform any act which does not hamper the equal freedom of another. No law shall forbid the performance of any act, which does not damage the physical or economic welfare of any other person."

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

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"A home without books is a body without soul."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

"Hatred is settled anger."

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."