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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

Character, Legal, Foundation, Authority

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, Mathematics, She, Chemistry, Now

Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention, and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals.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

Family, Nature, Marriage, Man, 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

Women, God, Think, Me, You, House

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

Religion, Democracy, Equality, Earth

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, Seek, Number, Got, Testimony

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

Justice, Balance, Rules, Edge, Trying

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, Think, Law, Believe, Opinions

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

Future, Eyes, Wish, You, Serious, Open

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, Honesty, World, Honesty Is

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, Black, Wolves, Gun, Own

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

Wisdom, Promise, Perform, Rarely

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

Respect, Children, Great, Conflict, Gun

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

Mind, Rest, Slavery, Place, Forward, New

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, Tired, Medical, Night, Medicine

Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses. Brett Kavanaugh

Home, Hunting, Like, Self-Defense, Been

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

Value, Exercise, Believe, Free, Crisis

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

Man, People, World, Price, Prey, Only

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

Freedom, Great, You, Authority, Human

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, Trouble, Burden, Nothing

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

Mistakes, Limits, Personal, Way, Try, Us

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

Alone, Loved, Desire, Pleasures, Excite

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

Stand, Always, Human, Without, Bow, Some

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

Happiness, Age, Men, Young, Real, Follow

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

Climb, Mankind, Upward, Those, Except

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

Climb, Legal, Mankind, Upward, Those

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