Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
Alan Dershowitz
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire
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You have laws to protect oil men, so why not artists?
Claude Picasso
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LGBTQ people are still targeted by hate that lives in both laws and in hearts.
Sarah McBride
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Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
Bobby Jindal
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When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.
Paul Davies
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As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
Anne Hutchinson
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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
Algernon Sidney
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Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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We have a separation of state and church. The laws of the country are not subject to the Koran.
Pim Fortuyn
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I want almost no laws, I want the smallest government possible. I don't want anyone telling anyone what to do.
Gavin McInnes
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The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
Sylvia Earle
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The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
Carol Bellamy
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Australia has embraced migrants from all different races, making us one of the most multiracial nations on earth. Most have assimilated and are proud to call themselves Australians, accepting our culture, beliefs and laws. I welcome them from the bottom of my heart. As they integrate and assimilate, the disruption caused by diversity diminishes.
Pauline Hanson
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I generally favor permissive abortion laws.
Benjamin Wittes
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Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.
Thomas Sydenham
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
Yusuf Hamied
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I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.
Rick Scott
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Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.
Ted Deutch
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Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.
Nigel Farage
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus
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The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has slowly lost its democratic prerogatives to commissions and councils with no popular mandate. Every nation in the union has had to apply laws it did not want for itself.
Marine Le Pen
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