The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.Daniel Gilbert

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

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?Frederic Bastiat

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.Anton Chekhov

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

If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?Anne Hutchinson

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

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.Immanuel Kant

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.Thomas a Kempis

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

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.William Penn

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

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.John Ruskin

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.Lysander Spooner

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

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