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• It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If…
• If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.
• That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where…
• I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false…
• Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that…
• The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the…
• What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government…
• In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal
• The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
• We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.
• 'I beseech ye . . . , think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the…
• Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

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