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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

"When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community."

"The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights."

"It doesn't matter who is in control of the country, people will continue to break the law and reap the consequences."

"The demand for equality has two sources; one of them is among the noblest, the other is the basest, of human emotions. The noble source is the desire for fair play. But the other source is the hatred of superiority. At the present moment it would be very unrealistic to overlook the importance of the latter."

"If we don't confront those things that are wrong, it gets worse."

"The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple."
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"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."

"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."

"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil."

"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."

"Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves."

"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
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