"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

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

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"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

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"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

"The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

Law, Economics, Money, Policy

"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Law, War, Justice, Commanders

"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

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"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

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"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."

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"Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop."

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"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

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"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

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

"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

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

"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."

"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."

"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."

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"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."

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"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

"Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir."

"When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied."

"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."

"When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing."

"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor."

"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt."