"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
-Jeremy Bentham
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.“
-Jeremy Bentham
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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
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"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
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"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
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"The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."
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"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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