Quote by George Herbert
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. - George Herbert

War makes thieves and peace hangs them. – George Herbert

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Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. – George Herbert

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Hunger makes a thief of any man. – Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

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Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. – Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson

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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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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. – Aristotle, Politics

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