Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-07-28 Jul 27, 2001This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.~ Justice Joseph StoryThe Supreme Court is steadily eroding the protections against police excess promised by the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.~ Dan BaumThe [Supreme] Court during the past decade let police obtain search warrants on the strength of anonymous tips. It did away with the need for warrants when police want to search luggage, trash cans, car interiors, bus passengers, fenced private property and barns.~ Dan Baum Jul 26, 2001Crime does not pay...as well as politics.~ Alfred E. NewmanCRIMINAL: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.~ Howard ScottI hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the U.S. is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.~ Paul Kirk Jul 25, 2001It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.~ VoltaireOf all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.~ John Foster Dulles Jul 24, 2001Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.~ Benjamin FranklinMoney and not morality is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.~ Thomas Jefferson Jul 23, 2001It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.~ Shirley ChisholmI'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.~ Milton FriedmanThere is as much chance of repealing the 18th Amendment as there is for a humming-bird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.~ Morris Sheppard Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print