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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Kempis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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