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All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. — James Burgh

What is lawful is not always identical to what is right. — Ian McEwan

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes. — Michelle Malkin

It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible? — Ford Madox Ford

Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
Nor all that glisters gold. — Thomas Gray

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. — Josh Billings

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. — Quintilian

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways. — Eliza Lynn Linton

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause. — Joseph McCabe

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. — William Golding

In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing. — William James

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. — Robert E.Lee

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong. — William Shakespeare

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. — David Boies

The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks — Dana Perino

O, she's warm!
If this be magic, let it be an art
Lawful as eating. — William Shakespeare

Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased.
"He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him. — Cassandra Clare

So little cost to comprehend that what has long been lawful, over centuries, comes forever out of Nature. — Euripides

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners? — Joan Of Arc

It is true, Christian, the debt thou owest to God must be paid in good and lawful money, but for thy comfort, here Christ is thy paymaster. Send — William Gurnall

An unlawful war can't make lawful captives. — Samuel Sewall

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. — Gary North

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? — Matthew McConaughey

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri. — Ovid

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power. — Samuel Johnson

Lawful heart, did any one ever see such freckles? And hair as red as carrots! — L.M. Montgomery

Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Reality is always lawful," said Harry, "even if we don't know the law. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Freedom is limited by the need to coexist. — Toba Beta

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel De Cervantes

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything. — Lucian

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other — Anton Chekhov

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself. — Rick Boucher

Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one. — Margaret Sanger

Every lawful trade may be sanctified by the gospel to noblest ends. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means. — Brian Crozier

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern. — Mohammed Morsi

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one. — Guy De Maupassant

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. — Francis Bacon

The true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife. — Emily James Smith Putnam

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. — David Hume

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective. — Naomi Wolf

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. — Jean Racine

A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation. — Henry Arthur Jones

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ally may be Evan's by law, but she's mine by nature. And in a battle between lions, no one gives a fuck about what's lawful. — S.L. Jennings

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live. — Dorothy Parker

The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena.
Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning. — Ian Barbour

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure. — John Calvin

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life. — Samuel Johnson

When the end is lawful the means are also lawful, — Len Deighton

The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive. — Aristotle.

For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground. — John Dryden

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful. — C.S. Lewis

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy. — Ahmed Ben Bella

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed. — Samuel Johnson

Just her, three men, a fidgety pig and lawful intent. — China Mieville