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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Quote by Orson Scott about books

Laws are silent in time of war.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about war, time

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about intention, common sense, sense

The anti-trust laws forbade such organizations. Roosevelt had denounced Hoover for not enforcing these laws sufficiently. Now he suspended them and compelled men to combine.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about man

For most practical purposes, the law of measure is the supreme law of life, because it bounds and includes all other laws.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about law, measure, life

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about judges

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Quote by Lord Acton about eternity, fall, change, moral

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Quote by John Adams about power, god

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Quote by Aeschylus about guvernement

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Quote by Aristophanes about wisdom, life, people

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Quote by Aristotel about law

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Quote by George W. Bush about rightness, end, life

In time of war the laws are silent.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about war, time

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about judges, law, rest

The more laws, the less justice.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about rightness, justice

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about force, police

What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about destruction, self-control

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about companies

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about man

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about rules, man, people