law Quotes

“Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union Address

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“But we must remember that good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“The Law has a promise but it is a conditional promise, depending upon whether people fulfill the Law.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

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“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.'”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Shalt thou give law to God? shalt thou dispute with him the points of liberty, who made thee what thou art, and formed the Powers of Heaven such as he pleased, and circumscribed their being?”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“The first branch, of which Rule, containeth the first, and Fundamentall Law of Nature; which is, 'To seek Peace, and follow it.'”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.”

― Jack London, White Fang

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“Thus from the four preceding articles, the definition of law may be gathered; and it is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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