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"Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"Hear the other side"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men, with Nature as its instrument"
C. S. Lewis, Author
"The severity of the laws prevents their execution"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
"A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase"
George Orwell, Author
"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged"
Bob Dylan, Musician
"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly, you become eligible for being wiped out yourself"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"Party-spirit, at best, is but the madness of many for the gain of a few"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery"
Malcolm X, Activist
"Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it"
William Penn, Leader
"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal, that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents"
Richard M. Nixon, President
"I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own"
H.G. Wells, Author
"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"Justice while she winks at crimes, stumbles on innocence sometimes"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them"
George Savile, Politician
"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people"
Marcus Garvey, Publisher
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest"
W. H. Auden, Poet
"We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back"
Barack Obama, President
"In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system"
Barack Obama, President
"We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare"
Barack Obama, President
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