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“Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.”

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The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

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Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

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Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his…

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The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

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No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

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Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be at the…

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It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired…

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In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.

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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

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Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too…

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What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

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A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

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Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

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Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues,…

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the…

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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

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