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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

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Just like we respect your legal system, you [europeans] should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.

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Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

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One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

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It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

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For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

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The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

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Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

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Law is order, and good law is good order.

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In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

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For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you just aren't able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.

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Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

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Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

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