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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

James Earl Jones

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

Nancy Johnson

Law

President

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here.

Richard Jewell

Law

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson

Law

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson

Law

Taste

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.