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- It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
- Sir James MacKintosh
- Judgement, not passion should prevail.
- Epicharmus
- The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
- Archibald Alexander
- From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
- Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874)
- A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
- Chaim Weizmann (1874 - 1952)
- That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
- Harold Laki
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