"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."

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"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."

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"The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice."

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"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."

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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

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"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

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"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."

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"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

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"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."

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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."

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"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

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"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

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"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."

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"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."

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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

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