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“The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.”
—Isidore Ducasse, Comte de LautrĂ©amont (18461870)
“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
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