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“We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.”

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Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“One of the most solemn responsibilities of the president and it's set out expressly in the Constitution is that the president is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and that means the Constitution. It means statutes. It means treaties. It means all of the laws of the United States.”

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Author:Samuel Alito

“'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.”

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Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.”

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Author:Felix Frankfurter

“I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.”

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Book:An economist's protest: columns in political economy

Source: An economist's protest: columns in political economy

“When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, "Is this a law of the God of Jacob?" and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty.”

Source: The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms