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2012 February 17
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"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully,
rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie." |
"Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people." |
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2012 February 16
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"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." |
"The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost
when the legislative power is dominated by the executive." |
"Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves." |
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2012 February 15
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"The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government." |
"[T]he accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." |
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2012 February 14
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"Unlike ordinary legislation, a constitution is enacted by the people themselves in their sovereign capacity and is therefore the paramount law." |
"... judicial verbicide is calculated to convert the Constitution into a worthless scrap of paper and to replace our government of laws with a judicial oligarchy." |
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2012 February 13
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"Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force." |
"The federal criminal code currently includes more than 3,000 offenses and hardly a congressional session goes by without an attempt to add new sections." |
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