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"For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth."

by:
Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist
Source:
Vices are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875).

 
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