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Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law


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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
SOLON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained fr...
THOMAS HOBBES Is there anything the magistrates can do to persuade you to pay?
PAUL VINCENT The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
EARL WARREN It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.
FREDERICK I, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE when you obey the rules, the rules obey you
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are se...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The only thing that convinced them to obey the law was when we hired (attorney) David Carrier - 'We ...
JULIAN KURTZ The language of law should be simple and straight, if you expect people to obey it.
AMIT KALANTRI It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
SAINT IGNATIUS 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) There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people go...
RUFUS CHOATE This is a very rough time for us, but we must obey the law and the rule of law.
ARMANDO GUTIERREZ We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE We can disagree on the laws that are passed, and we often do. But the foundation of our society is t...
GORDON CAMPBELL if people obey our law this hunt will be conducted safely.
DAVID HIGGINS I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
CHIEF JOSEPH Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.
ALAN MOORE You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
VLADIMIR PUTIN Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD One can only conclude that they (magistrates) want to interfere with the election campaign.
NICCOLO GHEDINI Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law
SOPHOCLES Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
JEAN ANOUILH Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same ...
ALBERT CAMUS Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY London is chaotic too but people obey the law. I've never been bumped by a car there like I have her...
CLAUDIA ADEATH Every game has rules. Life’s a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We welcome the prompt action taken by the Burnley magistrates to jail Michael Lewis for five months ...
BRIAN BARWICK 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) There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Good men must not obey the laws too well.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON They will obey the law. They will not obstruct, they will not interfere with the law under any circu...
KENDALL COFFEY In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people ...
RUSH LIMBAUGH Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT “We will Obey Law, Until it's time to Re-Write that Law!” Hitler
HITLER In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.
ENGLISH PROVERB Obey the gods and your prayers will not be heard. Obey the king and your prayers will not be heard. ...
JOACHIM MUNTHE There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
RUSH LIMBAUGH As a lawyer, David Pepper should obey the law, not break the law. Misleading and illegal political a...
BRAD GREENBERG No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask h...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you are uncomfortable with any law or procedure, propose a motion for its amendment. Until it is ...
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.
DEREK LANDY We are drawn to stories,” he says in a soft voice, “and every scar carries one.
MARIE LU Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, ...
XENOPHON The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.
MANNY PACQUIAO You do not have to obey the law you did not sign under, until you hurt anyone.
ILKIN SANTAK Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizen...
RONALS REAGAN 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. If we need a law passed, obviously we need the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass that ...
MICHAEL MOORE How can you see and sue something invisible?
TOBA BETA There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
RUSH LIMBAUGH The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON “What one experiences at the youthful days (now), does not mean he is being drawn to his failure�...
THE PIONEER WRITERS' SOCIETY A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with t...
ISAAC ASIMOV I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. ...
THOMAS MERTON We need to have permission from magistrates to remove everything from the tracks. It will still take...
LUIGI IRDI It's a subpoena. He has to obey,
RODNEY MELVILLE The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
HERODOTUS It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX Fred Gray has made the light shine upon our state favorably. George Wallace and Roy Moore refused to...
JOHN CADDELL For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
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