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law government decision
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Charles Tupper
law rights source
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. Charles Edward Merriam
law evil doers
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never. Charles Dickens
law people world
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. Charles Caleb Colton
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
law land tree
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
ideas france certain
All my life I have had a certain idea of France. Charles de Gaulle
ideas giving advice
Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you. Charles de Lint
ideas house stories
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
ideas rocks tree
Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it. Charles Soule
ideas yellow people
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used. Charles Stross
ideas people want
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is. Charles Stanley
ideas good-work ifs
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them! Charles Spurgeon
ideas world incredibles
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts
ideas gentleman plausible
The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.
radicalism needs radical
We need our radicals. Eleanor Roosevelt
radical
No question about that, the radicals are in charge. Dixie Lee Ray
radical rethink sports
We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop. John Higgins
radical seeing states
Right now, you're not seeing radical restructuring. States are being very cautious. Jack Jennings
radical-change danger harm
There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes. Calvin Coolidge
radical equal contempt
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals. Alexander Lebed
radicalism affair morrow
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. Ambrose Bierce
radicalism logic desperation
Radicalism is but the desperation of logic. Alphonse de Lamartine
radical taliban unlike worldly
Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.