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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.


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CHARLES WARREN You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
RICHARD LINGARD Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
AMBROSIUS MACROBIUS Man will always do evil and break laws if God’s moral laws are not their foundation
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU We can, when laws have been violated, hold people accountable to the laws that have been violated.
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SUSANE COLASANTI We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in...
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ELIZABETH CADY STANTON To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt
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GAVHITHERON The people should have the authority to change the laws.
LEE HALPER It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.
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ADAM HAMILTON People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...
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CYNTHIA SASS If we can find a way to enforce our laws and keep people from coming into our country illegally whil...
RONNA MCDANIEL Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good a...
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ANACHARSIS Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, ...
ANACHARSIS ANACHARSIS Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, ...
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