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"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare."
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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
"It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours."
"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."
"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."
"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."
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"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."
"Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable."
"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."
"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could."
"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."
"The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house."
"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."
"The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live."
"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."
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