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“Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.”

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Louis D. Brandeis was a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, known for his contributions to law and social justice. He was born on November 13, 1856, and died on October 5, 1941. more

“I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.”

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Book:William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words

Source: William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words

“Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.”

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Author:Gustavo de Greiff

“The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.”

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Author:Juan Guerrero Burciaga

“The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.”

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Author:William E. Gladstone

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