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Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.
— Thomas Malthus
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
— Thomas Francis Meagher
The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
— Thomas More
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order ...
— Thomas Paine
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
— Thomas Sowell
He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.
— Thomas Carlyle
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
— Thomas Carlyle
Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour
— Thomas Jefferson
It is the immutable law that the more you give away, the more you receive. You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
— Thomas S. Monson
If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
— Thomas Jefferson
Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38
— Thomas Merton
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
— Thomas Jefferson
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.
— Thomas Jordan Jarvis
The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.
— Thomas Paine
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
— Thomas Jefferson
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
— Thomas Jefferson
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
— Thomas Jefferson
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.
— Thomas Hobbes
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
— Thomas Jefferson
Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.
— Thomas Jefferson
The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.
— Thomas Keller
Reason is the Soul of the Law.
— Thomas Hobbes
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
— Thomas Jefferson
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
— Thomas Sowell
This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.
— Thomas Hobbes
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.
— Thomas Hutchinson
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
— Thomas Jefferson
Once victim, always victim-that's the law.
— Thomas Hardy
Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
— Thomas Sowell
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
— Thomas Jefferson
To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.
— Thomas Buckley
Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.
— Thomas Jefferson
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
— Thomas Jefferson
The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.
— Thomas Lynch
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
— Thomas Hobbes