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To live outside the law you must be honest.  

—Bob Dylan, 1966

Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.

—Ann Plato, 1841

Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.

—Frederick Douglass, 1878

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

—Davy Crockett, 1834

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

—Allen Ginsberg, 1981

Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

—Rudy Giuliani, 1999

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849

Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.

—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1913