Governors should be well principled.
L’Estrange
Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a …
Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained. Randy E. Barnett
Randy E. Barnett, Curing the Drug-Law Addiction
Go to Manila. Go around them, go through them, but go to …
Go to Manila. Go around them, go through them, but go to Manila. General Douglas MacArthur
To General Walter Krueger, Commander of the U.S. Sixth Army, World War II.
Sometimes, the most responsible thing a person can do on election day …
Sometimes, the most responsible thing a person can do on election day is stay at home … If you really don’t know enough to cast an intelligent vote, you should be eager to let your more informed neighbors make the decision. Greg Mankiw
October 2000,
That long [Canadian
That long [Canadian] frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only be neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Speech in honour of R.B. Bennett, Canada Club, London April 20, 1939
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Read much, but not many books. Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790…
Read much, but not many books.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
I trust you with your own money. George W. Bush Tuesday October …
I trust you with your own money.
George W. Bush
Tuesday October 17, 2000
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. …
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams
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[T]he whole theory of a free government is opposed to such grants. Mr. Justice Stephen Field
Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age, by Paul Kens. University Press of Kansas, 1997.
If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell …
If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’ John Wayne