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"What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man."
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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

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

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

"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."

"The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided."

"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."

"It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights."
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"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."

"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature."

"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."

"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship."

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."

"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."
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