“Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.”
As quoted in Time (17 February 1958)
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Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1HqWUMxbs#t=2m23s with Eric Sevareid (1967)

Third State of the Union Address (7 December 1903)
1900s

“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.”
Address to the Tenth National Women's Rights Convention on Marriage and Divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860; as published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith.

“A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.”
Source: The Call of the Wild

1840s, Past and Present (1843)

Letter to the General Assembly (1792)

(Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).

“You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.”
Надо исполнять закон всегда, а не только тогда, когда схватили за одно место.
Interview, 4 November 2003
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