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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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"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."

"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."

"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
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