Pastoral Resources

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

I am not a promoter of more laws, just better ones.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.