Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.


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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail...
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The law often permits what honor prohibits.
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The time is always right for the right thing.
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The fear will ring just as hollow in Kansas as it does in Florida. The problems law enforcement have...
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I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
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SUSANE COLASANTI
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ROBIN HOBB
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LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
STEVE YZERMAN
This approval is another example of our agency's endeavor to counter rising health care costs by app...
DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real ...
HENRY M. ROBERT
Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER
Without law,there will be no sin,without the rich,there wil be no the poor & without truth,there wil...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
We're not perfect, but we want to do the right thing.
CHARLIE BELL
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altoge...
GEORGE SUTHERLAND
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action accordi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the rig...
FREDERIC BASTIAT
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases
WILLIAM HAZLITT
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SAMANTHA STOSUR
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
WARREN BENNIS
The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of a...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
JOHN ADAMS
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
JEREMY BENTHAM
The law permits the credit bureaus to sell and lenders to buy lists of consumers who meet certain cr...
JOEL WINSTON
I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
ALLAN DARE PEARCE
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
LORD ACTON
It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
JIM DEMINT
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
PAUL FARMER
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they b...
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT
If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...
The principles of genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations, are to be drawn from the Bi...
NOAH WEBSTER
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
THOMAS PAINE
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to d...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
ANONYMOUS
Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its hou...
ILONA ANDREWS
Betrayal can be a double edged sword , you can get stabbed in the back and manipulated by it.On the ...
GARY F EVANS...
The just society where the law will be above every man,is the type of society we should all endeavor...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
BAINBRIDGE COLBY
The opposition has had all possible freedom, but it does not have the right to break the law and hol...
ALI AHMADOV
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
There can be no liberty without the law.
CECIL B. DEMILLE
Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of...
ROD STEWART
The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right t...
PAT TOOMEY
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happin...
EPICTETUS
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happin...
FRANK NORRIS
It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Deat...
VICTOR HUGO
until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The right is above the law, even when the law looks right
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK
We're looking at getting development permits this year. The intention is to go right into the design...
DON LACEY
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
TONY BLAIR
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will d...
ZIG ZIGLAR
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
MARK TWAIN
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
T.S. ELIOT
What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right. If it is therefore wrong to do what is wrong, the...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
No matter what God permits the devil to do, God is in ultimate control.
JAIME CONTRERAS
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court c...
JUDGE LEARNED HAND
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.
SIMONE SIGNORET
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom o...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
The chance to do it over again is called now.
J.R. RIM
That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the righ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the...
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the ri...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Whether you're beginning with the foundation or you're finishing off the second story...the purposef...
JOHN WAIRE
All 15 towns in the watershed that are up for new permits will get their new permits sometime in the...
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That the Indians possess the inherent right of expatriation as well as the more fortunate white race...
STANDING BEAR
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the rig...
DAVID CAMERON
I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Libert...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
VIRGIL
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find t...
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS
Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
ANUJ SOMANY
Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
CHANDRABABU V.S.
Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
CHANDRABABU V.S.
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MICHAEL MOORE
How can you see and sue something invisible?
TOBA BETA
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a simila...
JOHN RAWLS
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, w...
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty al...
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