Lysander Spooner Quotes
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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Wearisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
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It is unrealistic to imagine a US geostrategic vision which sees its pivotal interests linked exclusively to the Pacific region. More appropriately, we need to consider the wider Middle East, Central Asia and North-East Africa to be bound together in a geopolitical unit of pivotal importance.
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I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'
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Oh Paddy dear, and did you hear The news that's going round? The shamrock is forbid by law To grow on Irish ground.
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It was funny to hear that I'd slapped Bieber. I thought it was a joke. Then it blew up. I probably got 50 texts about it.
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Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
