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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.

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But with this we have not to do; our concern is only with the law of progression in experience, in which objects, that is, phenomena, are given.

 For it was these very laws, the internal practical necessity of which led us to the hypothesis of an independent cause, or of a wise ruler of the universe, who should give them effect. To things as things in themselves, conformability to law must necessarily belong independently of an understanding to cognize them. The only difficulty, therefore, is to find out this expedient, by which men cure their natural weakness, and lay themselves under the necessity of observing the laws of justice and equity, notwithstanding their violent propension to prefer contiguous to remote. 78$ per half pound For, if freedom were determined according to laws, it would be no longer freedom, but merely nature. Freedom--independence of the laws of nature--is certainly a deliverance from restraint, but it is also a relinquishing of the guidance of law and rule. 
For instance; a government is established for many centuries on a certain system of laws, forms, and methods of succession.
 If we do not set out from experience, or do not proceed according to the laws of the empirical connection of phenomena, our pretensions to discover the existence of a thing which we do not immediately perceive are vain.