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«The Old Testament is tribal in its provinciality; its god is a local god, and its village police and sanitary regulations are erected into eternal laws»
Author: John Macy
| About:
God,
Law and lawyers,
Religion
| Keywords:
erected, local, regulation, regulations, sanitary, testament, tribal, village
«The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
admitted, anarchy, commence, commenced, commences, force of law, Law and Justice, property, protect, public property, sacred, The Anarchy, tyranny
«The more laws, the less justice.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
Laws, Law and Justice, The Less
«The more corrupt the state, the more laws.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
| About:
Corruption,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
corrupt, The State
«The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
acted, at rest, external, force of law, inertia, motion, natural law, straight line, uniform
«The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
breaking, crack, crack down, criminals, criminal law, declares
«The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
The Law
«The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
assess, assessed, assesses, assessing, enact, enacted, enacting, lawbreaker, lawbreakers, tax, taxes, tax law
«The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Country,
Law and lawyers,
Weapons
| Keywords:
composite, composites, foundations, inevitably
«The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer»
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