#laws

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#behalf #laws #petitioner #pray #single

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#come #go #into #lawsuit #machine

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. ↗

— Robert Bork

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So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#america #campaign #clearly #congress #democracy

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #distinct #government #having #however

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#ends #gain #her #laws #nature

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#argument #around #black #confined #country

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#all things #avoid #beyond #conscience #dissipate

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#arranged #classified #facts #general #knowledge

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cruel #ends #germany #how #italy