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Herbert Spencer

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When men hire themselves to shoot other men to order, asking nothing of the justice of their cause, I don’t care whether they are shot themselves.Herbert Spencer, “Patriotism,” Facts and Comments (1902) — commenting on Britain’s “second war in Afghanistan” (1878-1880).

Lord Acton

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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.Letter (January 23, 1861), published in Abbot Gasquet, Lord Acton and his Circle (1906), Letter 74.

Theodore Parker

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Justice is moral temperance in the world of men. It keeps just relations between men; one man, however little, must not be sacrificed to another, however great, to a majority, or to all men.Theodore Parker, Ten Sermons of Religion (1853)

Something’s Rotten in Washington

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Something's rotten in Washington. We're learning that government agencies hid evidence and obstructed justice in the aftermath of the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas a siege that left 80 people dead. The apparent cover-up is a further tragedy on top of the grisly body count of women and children who…

Epicurus

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Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice or injustice; and likewise for those peoples who either could not or would not form binding agreements not to inflict nor suffer harm.

Epicurus

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Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice or injustice; and likewise for those peoples who either could not or would not form binding agreements not to inflict nor suffer harm.

Shadow Government

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We hire representatives to represent us. That's their job, right?Well, these days we're not getting the real deal. For a lot of reasons. One is that strings are being pulled from behind the scenes by folks we never voted for at all: congressional staffers. You see, career politicians are typically…

Lessons to Recall

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There is more to an election than just the outcome. The process counts too. The dialogue between candidates and the voters. California voters did a lot more than say "Hasta La Vista" to one governor and "Hola!" to another. For one thing, there was plenty of poetic justice. Schwarzenegger, an…

Can They Do That?

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Residential tenants in Zion — and their landlords — can breathe a sigh of relief. The Zion, Illinois, government can no longer send officials to barge into rented homes at will to conduct obnoxious inspections. The inspection regime was instituted in 2015 by a mayor who blamed an excess of…

Earl Warren

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“Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.” Earl Warren, as speech at Columbia University, January 14, 1954