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I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
Well, I'm not a crook.
Well, I'm not a crook.
The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and read more
The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are read more
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of read more
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is read more
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.