Quotes about Laws

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

Conclusion Therefore it seems to me that of the three alternatives before us—physical necessity, chance, or design—the most plausible explanation of the fine-tuning of the universe is design. That gives us a transcendent, super-intelligent Designer of the cosmos who has fixed the values of nature's laws. Incredible! So now we have a third argument contributing to a cumulative case for the existence of God.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God's voice.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.