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But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

Edward L. Bernays  Famous Quote

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Tyrion Lannister: It’s easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.

Game of Thrones, Season 6  Famous Quote

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A man with no motive is a man no one suspects. Always keep your enemies confused. If they don’t know who you are or what you want, they can’t predict your next move.

Game of Thrones, Season 6  Famous Quote

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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry  Famous Quote

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If you mind your own business, you won't be minding mine.

Hank Williams  Famous Quote

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When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When somebody up there - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator— so decrees.

Jessica Mitford  Famous Quote

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Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Louis D. Brandeis  Famous Quote

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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.

George McGovern  Famous Quote

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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons.

A. J. P. Taylor  Famous Quote

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Criminal lawyer. Or is that redundant?

Will Durst  Famous Quote

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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Oscar Wilde  Famous Quote

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The Internal Revenue Service is everything the so-called tax protesters said it was; nonresponsive, unable to withstand scrutiny, tyrannical, and oblivious to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.

Joseph Banister  Famous Quote

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That place [Disneyland] is my baby, and I would prostitute myself for it.

Walt Disney  Famous Quote

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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution.

Polly Adler  Famous Quote

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Stop wasting jail space on prostitutes, drug users and other victimless criminals. Even if we find it morally acceptable to imprison these people for choices they make regarding their bodies, we must realize that we simply cannot afford to continue clogging the court system and the prison system with these harmless criminals.

Edward B. Wagner  Famous Quote

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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Will Rogers  Famous Quote

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Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men.

Adam Smith  Famous Quote

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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

H. L. Mencken  Famous Quote

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Let us revise our views and work from the premise that all laws should be for the welfare of society as a whole and not directed at the punishment of sins.

John Biggs Jr  Famous Quote

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The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

Hugo Black  Famous Quote

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You should be allowed to do whatever you want with your own person and property, as long as you don't physically harm the person or property of a nonconsenting other.

Peter McWilliams  Famous Quote

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That's the trouble, of course: we have taken sins out of God's domain, where they can be forgiven, and put them in the domain of law, where they can only be plea-bargained.

Peter McWilliams  Famous Quote

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Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

Andrew Johnson  Famous Quote

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