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- Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter, 1810
- When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), Winner Take Nothing
- No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art.
- James Swan, In Defense of Hunting
- If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
- We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
- Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
- Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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