Lawfully Quotes

#1. Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.

John Linder

#3. The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.

Raymond Kelly

#4. Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

Stefan Zweig

#5. So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

Richard Hooker

#6. Laws ostensibly directed at undocumented immigrants inevitably affect the treatment of lawfully present immigrants and citizens who share the ethnic, racial, or national origin characteristics of undocumented immigrants.

Pratheepan Gulasekaram

#7. Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?

Frederic Bastiat

#8. The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. The Law is used un-lawfully, not when presented as the rule of the believer's life, but when it is opposed to Christ!

Arthur W. Pink

#10. No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times
in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Pope Pius XI

#12. IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

Charles Inglis

#13. Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

T.C. Boyle

#14. No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

Abraham Lincoln

#15. the most important question is not whether the government has the power to incarcerate a person - almost invariably, it does. The proper question is whether that power has been exercised lawfully.

Joseph Margulies

#16. I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.

Monica Lewinsky

#17. The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.

L. Tom Perry

#18. I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

John Lyly

#19. What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.

Roger B. Taney

#20. The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.

William L. Jenkins

#21. He may lawfully praise himself that lives far from neighbors." Though,

Erasmus

#22. But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

John Calvin

#23. When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

Aristotle.

#24. It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of liberty and of brotherly love

Emmuska Orczy

#25. We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.

Anthony Collins

#26. the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For

Frederic Bastiat

#27. The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

Charles Koch

#28. No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

Abraham Lincoln

#29. Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Thomas A. Edison

#30. Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

Grover Cleveland

#31. The interesting people are always immoderate.

Jonathan Franzen

#32. There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place.

Kenneth Chenault

#33. It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.

Tony Oliva

#34. If your gonna play with rattlesnakes, you better know what rattlesnakes do.

Smokey Yunick

#35. Oh yes!" said Dumbledore. "Yes, he destroyed it. Your soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry.

J.K. Rowling

#36. Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Thucydides

#37. And like some part of himself that, two days ago, had thought pray and propriety were antidote enough to what ailed the world.

Zoe Ferraris

#38. Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

Theodore Roosevelt