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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.: Book of Common Prayer
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.: Elisha Potter
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.: Sir William Draper
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.: Nathaniel Emmons
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The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.: Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.: Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)

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