Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-06-25 Jun 25, 2024O liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name! [Fr., O liberte! que de crimes on commet dans ton nom!]~ Madame Jeanne Marie Phlipon de La Platiere RolandIn existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes.~ P. D. OuspenskyLadies and Gentlemen, we only pass laws against people who obey the law. Drug dealers, bank robbers and rapists don’t care what we do because they willfully violate the law anyway.~ Rod Wright Jun 24, 2024Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.~ John C. CalhounThe constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the decision as to what views shall be voiced in the hands of each of us, in the hope that the use of such freedom will ultimately produce a more capable citizenry and more perfect polity and in the belief that no other approach would comport with the premise of individual dignity and choice upon which our political systems rests.~ John Marshall Harlan IIThe First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.~ Justice Anthony Kennedy Jun 21, 2024We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.~ Jesse Lee PetersonLaws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'~ Joel MillerTolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.~ Thomas Mann Jun 20, 2024Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.~ Abraham LincolnHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.~ John MiltonThe number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.~ P. D. Ouspensky Jun 19, 2024I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.~ Calvin CoolidgeFor a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.~ Cesare BeccariaLife and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.~ Earl Warren Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print