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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spi

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government. – Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in The Match!

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The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus, Annals

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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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