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

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

Legal, Obedience, Character

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

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

Medical, Other, Wife

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

Some, Cheaper, Prey

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

Always, Some, Bent

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

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

Till, Arrest, South

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

Weigh, Means, Multitude

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

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

Children, Mom, Always

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

Country, Obvious, War

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

Chemistry, Still, Woman

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

Teach, Think, Away

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.

Country, I Think, Death

I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman. Ziggy Marley

Always, Within, Digging

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

Law, Could, Ship

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

Gun, Fact, Constitution

The Second Amendment reflects the brilliance of our founders, who knew that no right is guaranteed unless we are willing to fight for it, and I remain committed to fighting for the rights of lawful gun owners as the senator for Alabama. Luther Strange

Amendment, Gun, Willing

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

Firmly, Patriot Act, Use

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective. Naomi Wolf

Effective, Business, Usual

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

Untouched, Submit, South

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. Rudy Giuliani

Human Being, Deal

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

Legal, Which, Climb

I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president. Jacob Zuma

Motion, Country, Confidence

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

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

Till, Young, Human Happiness

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