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Caesar hoped to reform men by changing institutions, and laws; Christ wished to remake institutions, and lesson laws by changing men. -
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Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people. -
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. -
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Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak. -
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No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subjects on which he is to legislate. -
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It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. -
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. -
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The courts have been expected to fill the void created by the decline of church, family and neighborhood unity. -
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A unjust law, is no law at all. -
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. -
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. -
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The purpose of the law is to prevent the strong from always getting their way. -
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When the state is most corrupt, then laws are most multiplied. -
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The cornerstone of this Republic, as of all free government, is respect for and obedience to the law. Where we permit the law to be defied or evaded, whether by rich man or poor man, by black man or w... -
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If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law. -
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law; and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it. -
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Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe–a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of whi... -
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When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the centr... -
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To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of... -
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A scientific law is not a scientific law if it holds only when some supernatural being decides not to intervene. -
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Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventual... -
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You cannot make men good by law. -
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For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonish... -
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The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine ene...
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