Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.

We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.