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Every law is an infraction of liberty. - Jeremy Bentham

Every law is an infraction of liberty. – Jeremy Bentham

Other quotes by Jeremy Bentham

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. – Jeremy Bentham

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Happiness
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Jeremy Bentham
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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Poverty
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Jeremy Bentham
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Other Quotes from
Law
category

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow. – Proverb

Category:
Law

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Law

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them. – Ward Becker

Category:
Law

Written laws are like spiders webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. – Anacharsis

Category:
Law

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What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. – Barbara Jordan

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Success

Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issues time has come and we need to move forward. – Kay Hagan

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Marriage

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. – T. S. Eliot

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