Famous quotes containing the words laws and/or act:
“There are laws for peace as well as war.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nor drove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)