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The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory. — Thomas Jefferson

The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom. — Marty Rubin

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living. — Wayne LaPierre

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu

Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been given to do. — Flannery O'Connor

Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed. — T.F. Hodge

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. — Benjamin Franklin

Reason gives expression to the laws of inevitability. Consciousness gives expression to the essence of freedom. — Leo Tolstoy

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled? — Joseph Smith Jr.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. — Thomas Jefferson

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results. — A.E. Samaan

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land. — Joseph Smith Jr.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being ... — Benjamin Constant

They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now and bid
Us to speak up in freedom's cause. — Cecil Day-Lewis

Men promise freedom while establishing laws; God promises laws while establishing freedom. — Criss Jami

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. — Kahlil Gibran

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. — Criss Jami

The constitution did indeed guarantee freedom of speech, but the laws punished anything that could be considered an attack on state security — Milan Kundera

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made. — Otto Von Bismarck

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. — Pythagoras

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis. — Emile M. Cioran

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends. — Rudolf Steiner

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with. — James Anthony Froude

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. — Jonathan Swift

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions. — Clarence Darrow

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws! — William McKinley

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality. — Neville Cardus

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. — Frederic Bastiat

I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. — John Dryden

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. — Thomas Jefferson

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money. — Thomas Hobbes

If we can accept the laws of the universe, the ebb and flow of joy and tragedy, then we have everything we need to embrace our true freedom. — Sarah Winman

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men
and fewer laws. — R.J. Rushdoony

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals — Plato

The only law is one which leads to freedom — Richard Bach

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. — John Milton

The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters. — Llewellyn Rockwell

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. — John Updike

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. — Henry David Thoreau

Although everyone knew it as freedom from the laws of Islam, no one was quite sure what else westernization was good for. — Orhan Pamuk

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press — Mark Twain

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. — Thaddeus Stevens