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• All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Patriotic, Equality

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Mean, World Government, Rights

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• Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Science, Physicians, Superstitions

  "An Introduction to the History of Medicine". Book by Fielding Hudson Garrison, 1913.

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• People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Hands, Order

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

  William Blackstone

  Men, Conform

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• If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  War, Practice, Savages

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• Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

  Melvin Belli

  Book, Bars, Clubs

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• A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

  Albert Einstein

  World Government, Civilization, Guarantees

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• World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a produce of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world.

  William O. Douglas

  Order, People, Essentials

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• The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Embodiment, Faults, Kind

  Iolanthe act 1 (1882)

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• Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

  Ovid

  Plot, Murder

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• There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Men, Doe

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• Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Blessing

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• Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

  James A. Garfield

  Science, Government, Statistics

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.455, Best Books on

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• This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Karma, Men, Design

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• It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  World Government, Way, Danger

  "The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States". Book by Carl Clinton Van Doren, 1948.

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• There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

  Albert Einstein

  World Government, Race, Civilization

  "World Politics: Trend and Transformation". Book by Charles Kegley (p. 537), 2008.

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• Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

  Mark Twain

  Rocks, Punishment, Sand

  "The Gorky Incident" (1906)

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• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Sacred, Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer the full penalty of Egyptian law against medical innovation; as I would consign to the pillory, the wretch, who out of regard to his character, that is, to his fees, should follow the routine, when, from constant experience he is sure that his patient will die under it, provided any, not inhuman, deviation would give his patient a chance.

  Thomas Beddoes

  Death, Character, Science

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• Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

  Lydia M. Child

  Justice, Principles, Eternal

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• At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Lying, Government, Liberty

  "Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465, 477". Dissenting opinion, 1921.

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• It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

  Cindy Sheehan

  People, Break, Immoral

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.

  U Thant

  Heart, Order, Vision

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• We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Enforcement, World

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