"The civil forfeiture law - if something so……" — George Will
"The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted."
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175 Quotes by George Will
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The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral…
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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
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The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
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My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal…
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
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Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and…
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting…
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
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