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The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater. – Bertrand Russell Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Psychologically, it is important to understand that the simple fact of being interviewed and investigated has a coercive influence. As soon as a man is under cross-examination, he may become paralyzed by the procedure and find himself confessing to deeds he never did. In a country where the urge to investigate spreads, suspicion and insecurity grow. – Joost A. Merloo Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
It takes a very long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth. – Alice Koller Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in ... the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing it’s noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. ...when all government... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. – Lady Marguerite Blessington Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The basic problem is simply that the Congress has become professionalized. It has interest much higher than ever existed before in remaining in office. It has a bureaucracy that is serving it. It is much more subject to the power of individualized pressure groups as opposed to the unorganized feelings of the majority of the citizens. – Justice Antonin Scalia Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic. – Norval Morris Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. – Frederic Bastiat Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime. – Richard A. Viguerie Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame. – P. J. O'Rourke Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! – Patrick Henry Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. – Robert G. Ingersoll Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
In truth, attempts to regulate the civilian possession of firearms have five political functions. They (1) increase citizen reliance on government and tolerance of increased police powers and abuse; (2) help prevent opposition to the government; (3) facilitate repressive action by government and its allies; (4) lessen the pressure for major or radical reform; and (5) can be selectively enforced against those perceived to be a threat to government. – Raymond G. Kessler Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Naziism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities. – Paul Johnson Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich. – Paul Harvey Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still. – Thomas Paine Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money—only for wanting to keep your own money. – Joseph Sobran Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. – Robert A. Heinlein Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
There are two distinct classes of men in the nation, those who pay taxes, and those who receive and live upon the taxes. – Thomas Paine Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Extremism' is a word deliberately chosen for its vagueness and used by intellectual slobs who are too desperate, sneaky or lazy to say exactly what they mean. Its only purpose is to deliberately try to confuse the difference between people who are extremely good (usually because of devotion to their principles) with people who are extremely bad. The sleazeballs who use this supposedly scary, yet undefined word are not only trying to smear people of conviction and integrity, but they're also trying to divert attention away from the fact that they are obviously not people of principle themselves. – Rick Gaber Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics... – Frederick C. Howe Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
[G]overnment theft of private money and redistribution by a government elite is communism not democracy. ... Communism has already been tried for over 70 years, and it doesn't work because people work to support themselves, not their neighbors. When the rewards are confiscated and redistributed to others, people produce less or stop producing altogether. The quantity of "goods in common" declines until the system finally collapses and everybody is hungry, not just "the poor." Then totalitarianism steps in to force people to produce ask the Russians, the Poles, the Estonians). – Don Hull Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny. – Walter E. Williams Famous Quote	added 5 years ago

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