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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee
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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee
Character
,
Legal
,
Obedience
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
Prey
,
Some
,
Cheaper
If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.
Malcolm X
Constitution
,
Gun
,
Fact
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov
Wife
,
Medical
,
Other
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
Think
,
Teach
,
Away
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
Legal
,
Climb
,
Which
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
John Quincy Adams
Christian Religion
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
Means
,
Weigh
,
Multitude
I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.
Toussaint Louverture
Submit
,
South
,
Untouched
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Death
,
Country
,
I Think
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel de Cervantes
Always
,
Some
,
Bent
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Children
,
Mom
,
Always
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
,
Chemistry
,
Still
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.
Daniel Gilbert
Eyesight
,
Tell
,
Pattern
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
,
Impossibility
,
Feels
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
Wisdom
,
Wealth
,
Tender
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
,
Injustice
,
Individual
During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights in a lawful and appropriate manner, and I believe it is important that we provide individuals with specific reassurance that we value those rights.
Colleen Hanabusa
Exercise
,
Appropriate
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
Abraham Lincoln
Arrest
,
South
,
Till
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
,
Obvious
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
Immigration
,
Willing
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
Gary North
Religion
,
World
,
Satan
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.
Lysander Spooner
Ship
,
Law
,
Could
We are a great enough country to respect the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners and protect our children. And those things don't need to be in conflict.
Elizabeth Esty
Gun
,
Country
,
Amendment
We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people.
John O. Brennan
Patriot Act
,
Use
,
Firmly
Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention, and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals. Rather, I believe that the traditional family structure - centered on a lawful union between one man and one woman - comports with nature and with our Judeo-Christian moral tradition.
Charles T. Canady
Woman
,
Rather
,
Centered
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