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“Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?”

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John D. MacDonald

John D. MacDonald was an American writer renowned for his crime novels. His works are known for their intricate plots and complex characterizations, which have had a profound impact on the development of crime fiction. more

“A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such a law, instead of enlarging our conveniences, as was intended, would most fearfully abridge them, and crowd us by monopolies out of the use of the things we have.”

Men May Use Law Saws Pieces Cutting Subjects Crowds Woods Planes Meat Knives Monopoly Convenience Forks

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.”

War Sometimes Might Choices Enemy Conditions Republic Warfare Disposition Avoidance

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.”

Humans Character Human Nature Weakness Errors Vices Foul

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.”

People Ifs Kind Mean Known Practice Fire Particular Married Providence Being Married Apostles Matrimony

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1760-1776

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1760-1776

“Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.”