Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws
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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as ju...
BLAISE PASCAL We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all s...
JOHN ADAMS International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by...
HENRI LA FONTAINE We ought not to forget that the whole Church, quite as much as any part of it, exists for the sole r...
HOWARD A. JOHNSON Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS I certainly believe that we're in a bear market and we're going test the lows that we established la...
TOM GALLAGHER A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
LUDWIG VON MISES Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspi...
BIRCH BAYH John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he...
MICHELE BACHMANN A man ought not to be governed by laws, in the framing of which he had not a voice, either in person...
CHARLES GREY 2ND EARL GREY A man ought not to be governed by laws, in the framing of which he had not a voice, either in person...
CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL GREY The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic i...
NOSTRADAMUS Divine truths cannot be understood by natural intellects
SUNDAY ADELAJA There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizen...
RONALS REAGAN It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
BLANCHE LINCOLN In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine au...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI 'Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test
of gravity, and gravity of humour...
SIR ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, 7TH EARL OF SHAFTESBURY I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD BYRON I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the la...
JAMES MADISON The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can onl...
CESARE BECCARIA I cannot get John Edwards and John Kerry -- maybe they ought to meld here. And I think maybe they mi...
DAVID BONIOR I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
GAVIN BRYARS Because the Advanced Placement Examination test is the required end-of-course examination, it cannot...
KEN CUCCINELLI In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.
JAMES MCHENRY I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of c...
ANNE DUDLEY Now this state [that] gave us John Adams and John Kennedy has now given us John Kerry , a good man, ...
BILL CLINTON We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspect...
HAVELOCK ELLIS Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
DAVID MCCULLOUGH That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established
ARISTOTLE To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
JO WALTON I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.
RICHARD GERE The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation...
R. J. CUTLER Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books h...
JOHN BURROUGHS We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
BIBLE And had it not been that We had already established you, you would certainly have been near to incli...
QURAN The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great ...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great boo...
JOSEPH JOUBERT The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization ...
WALTER GROPIUS Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anythin...
ROBERT P. MCCULLOCH He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the m...
HENRY FIELDING He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the m...
HENRY FIELDING He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the m...
HENRY FIELDING As long as there are unjust laws, especially criminal laws, it would be doubly unjust if the defenda...
YEO YANG POH To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That in which cannot yet be comprehended, is intrinsically divine.
ANGEL ORTIZ There's certainly an issue of free speech here. We're not saying by any means that these books shoul...
DANIEL GREENE By defining Logos as a hypostasis of the divine, John underscored the most important aspect o...
JAMES MIKOłAJCZYK Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart...
GARY ZUKAV Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and ...
IMMANUEL KANT He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for th...
HENRY FIELDING He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for t...
HENRY FIELDING He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery ...
ARISTOTLE Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery ...
ARISTOTLE We're not presuming that this is the policy of the judicial branch or the legislative branch, althou...
KEVIN HALL You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that yo...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
ARISTOTLE KORAN, n. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration,...
AMBROSE BIERCE The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not...
MOLLY IVINS It is almost unavoidable not to be deeply disappointed by knowing that maximum efforts by four Indon...
HASSAN WIRAYUDA If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resen...
MAY SARTON Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you can...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and tha...
BLAISE PASCAL Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most se...
JOSEPH ADDISON Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most se...
JOSEPH ADDISON Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at t...
IGOR STRAVINSKY Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushin...
RUSH LIMBAUGH I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least...
RICHARD BAXTER It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, no...
JIM ELLIOT The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he mi...
PAUL C. NAGEL The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant t...
HAROLD LOUKES What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, inst...
ELIF SHAFAK I am certainly an ought and not a must.
E. M. FORSTER Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but...
HENRY JAMES SUMNER MAINE We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak.
BIBLE Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -...
JOHN ADAMS We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere dis...
AYN RAND We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war up...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD It may be the first step to regionalizing. It certainly relates and comes directly from the vision e...
CHARLES CHISOLM Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and ...
T.I. I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a m...
JANE AUSTEN Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the esta...
ALGERNON SYDNEY It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thoug...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY [T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a m...
JANE AUSTEN He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
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I must j...
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,
For freedom only deals the deadly blow;
Then sheathe...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS