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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations

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

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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. – Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954

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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. – Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals

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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson

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