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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
Albert Einstein
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Winston Churchill
“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
Buddha
“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.”
Mark Twain
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
“Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children”