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

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.