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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

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

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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