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

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

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"The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Law, Travel, Consequence, Fear

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"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

"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Law, Chance, Justice, Decision

"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Law, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

Life

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

Life

"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

Wisdom

"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."

Affirmation

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

Society

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."

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"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."

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"The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction."

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

"The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice."

"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."

"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."

"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

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"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

"Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is."

"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."

"The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command."

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."

"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."