“ Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made. ”
- Otto Von Bismarck- Copy
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“ The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. ”
- James Clerk Maxwell- Copy
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“ One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them. ”
- Suzanne La Follette- Copy
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“ I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. ”
- Belva Lockwood- Copy
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“ The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ The scientific spirit has cast out the demons, and presented us with nature clothed in her right mind and living under the reign of law. It has given us, for the sorceries of the alchemist, the beautiful laws of chemistry; for the dreams of the astrologer, the sublime truths of astronomy; for the wild visions of cosmogony, the monumental records of geology; for the anarchy of diabolism, the laws of God. ”
- James A. Garfield- Copy
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“ Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds. ”
- Jeremy Rifkin- Copy
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“ As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ”
- Edward Sandford Martin- Copy
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“ It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. ”
- Harry A. Blackmun- Copy
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“ The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud. ”
- Harry A. Blackmun- Copy
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“ Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
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“ When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
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“ The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
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“ The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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