Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-07-31 Jul 31, 2001It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.~ Etienne de la BoétieFind out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.~ Frederick Douglass Jul 30, 2001Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.~ George Bernard ShawUnder a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison ... the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.~ Henry David ThoreauThere are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.~ Hubert H. HumphreyHe didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.~ Raymond Chandler 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print