If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us the fundamental laws of nature and the basics of living in life
It is a sad situation for a son-in-law when his mother-in-law praises him.
[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither; hence there arise laws and mutual covenant...
Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, storm and hail.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
