"Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law."

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Source : Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

Louis D. Brandeis

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“Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.”
“Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done.”
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

Source : Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.73, Vintage
“As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors”

Source : "Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.
“You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but youâ€™ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.”
“The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.”
“That is definitely the biggest challenge, career and family, and learning how to balance.”

Source : Source: maroonweekly.com
“The biggest threat to the regime is information.”

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