I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

Law is mind without reason.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

More law, less justice.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.