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“In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.”

Mind Matter Law Political Nations Concern Bills Clinton Officials Consideration Life And Death Law Enforcement Enforcement

Book:The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House

Source: The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House

“If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.”

Ifs Persons Law Pure Glory Increase Deeds Consideration Earnest Forgetful

Book:Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada

Source: Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada

“The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.”

Firsts Law Christ Sin Consideration Ceremony Mosaics

Author:Pope Benedict XIV

“It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.”

Reality Law Purpose Fiction Invisible Corporations Consideration Immortal Shade Nonentity

Author:Edward Coke

“The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.”

Source: On God and Political Duty: Calvin

“The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers.”

States Law Members Paper Weakness Critical Consideration Inherent Papers Federalist Federalist Papers Federation

Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

“Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.”

Ends Body Law Nations Interest Economic Judging Behavior Bounds Supreme Superiors Consideration Bows Representatives Clash Transactions

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the knowledge of the permanent benefits which may be obtained by a moderate use of conquest, and a just apprehension lest the desolation which we inflict on the enemy's country may be retaliated on our own. But these considerations of hope and fear are almost unknown in the pastoral state of nations.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire