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2014 April 11
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"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what they may." |
"If politicians don't respect the law,
why should citizens respect politicians?" |
"The requirement of 'due process'
is not a fairweather or timid assurance.
It must be respected in periods
of calm and in times of trouble;
it protects aliens as well as citizens." |
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2014 April 10
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"Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." |
"It is not the business of the law
to make anyone
good or reverent or moral
or clean or upright." |
"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." |
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2014 April 09
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"In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? — On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependance on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty." |
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2014 April 08
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"If you believe it reprehensible to possess the means and will to use lethal force to repel a criminal assault, how can you call upon another to do so for you?" |
"Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work." |
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression
on the equal rights of another, and
this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." |
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2014 April 07
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"The law will never make men free;
it is men who have got to make the law free." |
"No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law.
When the secular is called in to sustain an idea,
whether new or old, it is always a bad idea,
and not infrequently it is downright idiotic." |
"Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more." |
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