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Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.

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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

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Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

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It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

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Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

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All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

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The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

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A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

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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.

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One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

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