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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."

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."


"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."


"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."
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