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People are more afraid of the laws of man than of god, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

-William Penn

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People Are More Afraid Of The Laws

William Penn

People are more afraid of the laws of man than of god, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. in this sense all beings have their laws: the deity his laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. it's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. a survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.

Do not be afriad! i can see that americans are not afraid. they are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. they are, generally speaking, brave, good people. and so i say to you today, always be brave. do not be afraid. do not be afraid. god is with you. do not be afraid to search for god-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. god bless america.

And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid so it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive

State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to congress. ... inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. no direct general power over these objects is granted to congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to state legislation.

The laws of nature are just, but terrible. there is no weak mercy in them. cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. the elements have no forbearance. the fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. and perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the laws of man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the laws of nature -were man as unerring in his judgments as nature.

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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. they had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [they proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.

Now i want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. the night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. the effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for god is peace.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. it is god's handwriting a wayside sacrament. welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

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