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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Laws are silent in time of war.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.