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Persons Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and…
- There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty…
- All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be…
- Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or…
- The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And…
- For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of…
- No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only…
- The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious…
- But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even…
- It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can…
- Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute…
- Now it is clear, that if the government can exclude, on account either of their opinions or feelings, any persons thus drawn by lot, the…
- One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is…
- The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts.…
- There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon…
- And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all…
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- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash