Pastoral Resources

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.