Pastoral Resources

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

A government of laws, and not of men.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.