Pastoral Resources

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.