“There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”
Voltaire
“By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.”
Mark Twain
“The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be”
“It's the one thing we can actually do something about. Obey the laws. If you're going to run fast, stay in the middle of the channel because the manatees spend more time on the edges where the grass is.”
Wayne Hartley
“We may not always oblige, but we may always speak obligingly”