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Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.


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Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
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LOUIS D. BRANDEIS Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
RONALD REAGAN If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
JAMES GARFIELD If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, a...
DAVID DAVIS The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, a...
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ARTHUR GOLDBERG Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age...
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DAVID BOIES To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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JEN POLLOCK MICHEL Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
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MARC WARREN Where there is law there is injustice
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OKKY MADASARI It is a lie.
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PATRICK HENRY Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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UNKNOWN But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth th...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, n...
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CARL LEWIS The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the chal...
CARL LEWIS Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You a...
CARL LEWIS People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone ...
CARL LEWIS Life is about timing.
CARL LEWIS What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you...
LEWIS BLACK ... the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denom...
C.S. LEWIS If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should...
C.S. LEWIS It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is ...
C.S. LEWIS Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
LEWIS CARROLL I am fond of children--except boys.
LEWIS CARROLL Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare
the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bo...
LEWIS MORRIS The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that ...
LEWIS THOMAS The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc...
LEWIS MUMFORD They're the only friends that I've had consistently throughout high school. We've put in so many hou...
ALEX LEWIS We know they have a lot of long, athletic guys that like to take it up and down the floor a lot. The...
ALEX LEWIS Everyone sort of got stagnant. We weren't making the best passes that we could. I don't know if it w...
ALEX LEWIS We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've...
ALEX LEWIS They have to keep working and we have to take their lunches over to the pits.
ALEX LEWIS Their food has to be nutritious, high in protect and high in volume. It has to include a choice of f...
ALEX LEWIS What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C.S. LEWIS The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to...
C.S. LEWIS You can make anything by writing.
C.S. LEWIS