Lawful Quotes

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken

Woman, She, Chemistry

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas a Kempis

Love, Strength, Nothing

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin

Cannot, Worse, Consider

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov

Tired, Wife, Night

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher

Except, Mankind, Climb

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Honesty, Anyone, Wealth

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

Honest, Means, Few

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas Carlyle

Age, Happiness, Men

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee

Character, Foundation, Manly

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn

Promise, Rarely, Constantly

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad

Except, Mankind, Climb

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel de Cervantes

Human, Cannot, Stand

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
Gary North

God, Satan, Christians

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Quintilian

Alone, Desire, Loved

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.
Michelle Malkin

Power, Government, Team

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Children, Name, Gave

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
Frederic Bastiat

Law, Liberty, Individual

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
Ahmed Ben Bella

War, Country, Easy

In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.
Bob Ney

Act, Industry, Protection

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
Spencer Bachus

Society, Accept, Open

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
John White Geary

Men, Sacrifice, Around

If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
Anne Hutchinson

Women, God, Why

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.
Mohammed Morsi

Real, Free, State

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
David Boies

Home, Act, Says

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.
Rick Boucher

Practice, Manner, Defend

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