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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. – Joseph Addison

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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. – Joseph Addison

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

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We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people. – Bob Ney

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In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a companys machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a companys server, the police can get it without showing you anything. – Richard Stallman

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Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal. – Jack Abramoff

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Mens indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. – Thucydides

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