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Quotations regarding 'Laws'

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Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist (1938-  )
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist (1938-  )
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
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, American Educator (1942-  )
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.
Joachim du Bellay, French Poet
If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
Robert Benchley, American Comedian (1889-1945)
The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
Marion Berry, American Politician (1942-  )
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Otto von Bismarck, German Leader (1815-1898)
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck, German Leader (1815-1898)
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.
Hugo Black, American Judge (1886-1971)
Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.
Sherwood Boehlert, American Politician (1936-  )
While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
John Boehner, American Politician (1949-  )
I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
John Boehner, American Politician (1949-  )
Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.
George Phillips Bond, American Scientist (1825-1865)
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
George Boole, Irish Mathematician (1815-1864)
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Robert Bork, American Public Servant (1927-  )
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, American Author
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
David Brainerd, American Clergyman
So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
Carol Moseley Braun, American Politician (1947-  )
 
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