Quote by Radley Balko

“It was the deployment of British soldiers to colonial cities strictly for the purpose of enforcing the law that set long-smoldering hostilities aflame. Using…

— Radley Balko

That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize…

— George Mason

“In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies,…

— Charles Dickens

We are looking at the potential of an armed raid or a forcible raid after February 22nd [2017], when the Army Corps said that…

— Chase Iron Eyes

Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even…

— Harry Browne

The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior:…

— George Will

“In a strange sort of way, all this illegality actually set these people free. During the war, they had only two grim choices: they…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“Many of these bandits had enlisted under illegal names and were not model soldiers to begin with, but regardless of the circumstances, they took…

— Charles River Editors

Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States;…

— Anne Royall

Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general…

— Andrew Jackson

Property of a US Soldier.

— Anonymous

“It meant simply that the state could not, except in unusual circumstances, confiscate a citizen’s private property or tell him what to do with”

— Yuval Noah Harari