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"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws." Edward Abbey 4.3219 average rating  
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." John Quincy Adams 4.7414 average rating  
"'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness." Æschylus 3.7000 average rating  
"For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency." Eric Ambler 4.5000 average rating  
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered." Aristotle 4.4194 average rating  
"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind." Sir Francis Bacon 4.6667 average rating  
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order." Sir Francis Bacon 3.8571 average rating  
"Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings." Dave Barry 4.4444 average rating  
"For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it." James 2:10 Bible 4.4000 average rating  
"Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy." Ambrose Gwinett Bierce 4.8000 average rating  
"Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable." H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky 4.0000 average rating  
"If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind." Henry C. Blinn 4.0000 average rating  
"If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead." Erma Louise Bombeck 4.0000 average rating  
"The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age." Nadia Boulanger 4.6000 average rating  
"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." Edmund Burke 4.8571 average rating  
"Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change." Robert Burns 3.7500 average rating  
"The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented." John Calvin  
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself." Truman Capote 4.6667 average rating  
"An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint." James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. 4.2500 average rating  
"I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did." James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. 3.3333 average rating  
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