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"In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many."
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"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."
"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation."
"We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve."
"Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority."
"It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890."
"Property has its duties as well as its rights."
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"In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many."
"Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men."
"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design."
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