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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

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

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

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

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

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.