"Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."

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"Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."

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"Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Every citizen is free to perform any act which does not hamper the equal freedom of another. No law shall forbid the performance of any act, which does not damage the physical or economic welfare of any other person."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Lawless are they that make their wills their law."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"At some point, Moore's law will break down."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

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"I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general."

Christine Gregoire, American Politician

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"But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States."

Robert Mueller, American Public Servant

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"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."

Oliver Holmes, Jr., American Judge

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"That which is not just is not law."

William Lloyd Garrison, American Journalist

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"They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it."

Jack Cade, English Activist

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"I am very pro law enforcement."

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"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."

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"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."

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"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."

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"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

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"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."

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"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."

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"Happy the people whose annals are tiresome."

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"Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune."

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"The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles."

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"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."

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