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“National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.”

Government Law Ability Security Trust Protect Accounts Preserves National Security Electorate Public Trust

Author:Al Franken

“In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.”

War Problem Law Courses Force Chance Enemy Plans Military Fit Circumstances Mets Survival Overcoming Accounts Practicals Alternatives Opposing Adaptability Obstruction

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.”

Wells Long Law Science Quality Moral Study Limits Ethics Accounts Ethical Laws Of Nature Biological Science

Author:Ernst Boris Chain

“Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade their personal lives, with no oversight or accountability. Law-abiding Americans also deserve to know that when law enforcement can show an impartial judge clear evidence of criminal activity or a threat to national security, swift and decisive action will be taken to protect the public. That is the balance we must achieve.”

“Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ...The prophetic soul, Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.”

World Soul Dream Law Science Humanity Growth Development Accounts Pressure Wide Prophetic

Book:Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma

Source: Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma

“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.”

Persons Law Knowing Tools Accounts Property Lawyer Expensive Remarkable Shy Application Uncertain Right Person Shaving Meddling

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc

“If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.”

Ifs Law Universe Cases Conditions Accounts Laws Of Nature

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.”

Men Made Self Seems Law Virtue Accounts Willpower Self Will

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.”

Book Matter Whole Body Law Found Jesus Movement Accounts Distance Supposed To Be Heavenly Squares Hypothesis Newton Solar System Verification Heavenly Bodies

Book:Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics

Source: Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics

“The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.”

World Believe States Law United United States Knowing Atheism Citizens Civilization Universal Accounts Positive Atheism Secure Distinction Nationality Universal Laws

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account this richer meaning, the Establishment Clause, in banning laws that concern religion, especially prohibits those that pay homage to religion.”

Mean Law Pay Atheism Concern Accounts Regard Positive Atheism Establishment Reverence Good Will Homage Clauses Establishment Clause

Author:John Paul Stevens

“Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.”

“As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.”

Source: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

“Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.”

Ifs Should States Whole Law Order Wealth Justice Virtue Kings Office Abuse Accounts Regard Secure Bad Things Leisure

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle