It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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Unknown
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
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Aristotle
Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty
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R. Kelly
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not...
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Learned Hand
I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient secrets of man and of earth, not forbidding us, however, a secular explanation of facts and a rational view of...
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Marguerite Yourcenar
More Quotes By Louis LAmour
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.
It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.
