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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

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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

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The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

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Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor. ↗

— John McCarthy

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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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