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Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

The laws of this world are for children.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.