"There can be no criminal intent in resisting…" — Lysander Spooner
"There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice."
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118 Quotes by Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner has 118 quotes on this site.
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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply…
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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that…
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Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the…
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There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not…
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If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we…
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No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
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All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number…
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It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever…
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Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one…
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And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave,…
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The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think…
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Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as…
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good…
— Kelly Ayotte
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be,…
— F. Lee Bailey
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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real…
— James Belushi
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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion…
— Alfred Adler
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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have…
— Barbara Boxer
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
— Bill Bryson
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To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules…
— Nicolas Cage
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It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which…
— Dick Cheney
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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