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the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Laws'

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What is crucial is there be laws.
Andre Weil, French Mathematician (1906-1998)
More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.
Anthony Weiner, American Politician (1964-  )
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
Allen Weinstein, American Public Servant (1937-  )
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
Adam Weishaupt, German Clergyman (1748-1830)
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
Robert Welch, -
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson Welles, American Actor (1915-1985)
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West, American Actress (1893-1980)
Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.
Allen West, American Politician (1961-  )
Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.
Allen West, American Politician (1961-  )
Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
Edward Weston, American Photographer (1886-1958)
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
Edward Weston, American Photographer (1886-1958)
Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
William H. Wharton, American Politician (1802-1839)
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
Byron White, American Judge (1916-2002)
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
Eugene Wigner, American Physicist (1902-1995)
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
Xenophon, Greek Soldier
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
John Yoo, American Educator (1967-  )
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
John Yoo, American Educator (1967-  )
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
John Yoo, American Educator (1967-  )
According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.
Pieter Zeeman, Dutch Physicist (1865-1943)
 
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