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True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
Jonathan Sacks

Freedom, True, Justice

We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.
Brad Thor

God, Evil, Night

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
Max Stirner

Violence, State, Individual

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
Ramsey Clark

Public, Police, Protect

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy

Nature, Society, Cruelty

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
Christopher Lasch

Family, Single, American

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.
David Cameron

Life, Enough, Others

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft

Beauty, Truth, Justice

I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.
Rick Perry

Job, Defend, Border

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
Vaclav Havel

Life, Struggle, Universe

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
Vladimir Putin

Special, Place, Obey

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
Sarah Palin

War, Win, Standing

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
Earl Warren

While, Police, Obey

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.
Catherine Deneuve

Love, Film, English

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Luc de Clapiers

Nature, Cannot, Mankind

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.
Keanu Reeves

Great, Able, Means

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
Guru Nanak

Woman, Whatever, She

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
Susan Orlean

School, Father, Writing

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
Henry Louis Gates

Business, School, Black

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
Denis Healey

Stop, Digging, Holes

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Idi Amin

Country, Die, Nation

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.
Judy Biggert

War, Children, Fighting

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjold

Strength, Soul, Same

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
Michael Pollan

Time, Great, Struggle

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust

Nature, Human, May

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
Sonia Sotomayor

Rights, Rule, Foundation

It is a law of life that problems arise when conditions are there for their solution.
Walter Sisulu

Life, Problems, Solution

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
John Cusack

Business, Death, Through

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Andy Grove

While, Public, Actually

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
Peter Kropotkin

Men, Society, Others

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