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[A] public policy of simply discouraging people from owning or using firearms is not, in and of itself, a constitutionally permissible objective, any more than discouraging people from religious observance would be permissible to some oh-so-progressive government that considered religion as hopelessly declassé as progressives nowadays consider the right to keep and bear arms .... And any statute or regulation that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the ground that guns are a public health hazard should enjoy the same frosty reception in court that would be given a statute or regulation that burdened the free exercise of religion as a mental hazard. – Daniel D. Polsby	added by Normando 1 year ago
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. – Calvin Coolidge	added by Normando 4 years ago
Holding an event mocking the Muslim observance of Ramadan, a holy time in the Muslim faith, is highly offensive and abhorrent. As a community, we must reject anti-Muslim bigotry whenever and wherever it surfaces. – Scott Levin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The need for strict observance of the ceasefire was underlined. – Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself. – William Henry Harrison	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. – Denis Diderot	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril. – President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 p1063	added by anonymous 13 years ago
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. – William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4	added by anonymous 13 years ago

[A] public policy of simply discouraging people from owning or using firearms is not, in and of itself, a constitutionally permissible objective, any more than discouraging people from religious observance would be permissible to some oh-so-progressive government that considered religion as hopelessly declassé as progressives nowadays consider the right to keep and bear arms .... And any statute or regulation that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the ground that guns are a public health hazard should enjoy the same frosty reception in court that would be given a statute or regulation that burdened the free exercise of religion as a mental hazard.

– Daniel D. Polsby

added by Normando
1 year ago

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

– Calvin Coolidge

added by Normando
4 years ago

Holding an event mocking the Muslim observance of Ramadan, a holy time in the Muslim faith, is highly offensive and abhorrent. As a community, we must reject anti-Muslim bigotry whenever and wherever it surfaces.

– Scott Levin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The need for strict observance of the ceasefire was underlined.

– Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

– William Henry Harrison

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

– Denis Diderot

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril.

– President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 p1063

added by anonymous
13 years ago

But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.

– William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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