To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966
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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, 1841Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Most 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, 1834My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
—Allen Ginsberg, 1981Freedom 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, 1999All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.