#law

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#cases #depend #easier #follow #harder

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government. ↗

— Ken Starr

#duty #evidence #government #lawyers #wrongdoing

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. ↗

— John Dryden

#law #nature #self-defence

They that possess the prince possess the laws. ↗

— John Dryden

#possess #prince

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ↗

— William Dunbar

#affairs #apply #becomes #difficult #enable

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#bowl #doctors #everything #football #football season

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. ↗

— Will Durant

#asks #because #case #his #laws

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#detainees #founded #human #human rights #humane

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me. ↗

— Robin Trower

#every #favorite #flaws #i #me

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#god #later #laws #men #never