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We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of read more
We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will read more
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes
hereafter, some of them in hell.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.
There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by read more
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every read more
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.