"Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied."

Law, Laws, Nation, Reason

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"Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied."

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"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

"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

"Lawless are they that make their wills their law."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Law,

"At some point, Moore's law will break down."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Law, Will

"I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general."

Christine Gregoire, American Politician

Law, Clients

"But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States."

Robert Mueller, American Public Servant

Law, states, United, Years

"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."

Oliver Holmes, Jr., American Judge

Law, Morality, History, Life

"That which is not just is not law."

William Lloyd Garrison, American Journalist

Law,

"They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it."

Jack Cade, English Activist

Law, Laws, May, Pleasure

"I am very pro law enforcement."

Robert Stack, American Actor

Law,

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"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."

Nature

"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."

Power

"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"

Philosophy

"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."

War

"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."

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"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed."

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"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

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

"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."

"Lawless are they that make their wills their law."

"At some point, Moore's law will break down."

"I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general."

"But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States."

"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."

"That which is not just is not law."

"They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it."

"I am very pro law enforcement."

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"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."

"Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws."

"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."

"Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer."

"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."

"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"

"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."

"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."

"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed."

"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."