The strange American ardor for passing laws, the insane belief in regulation and punishment, plays into the hands of the reformers, most of them quacks themselves. Their efforts, even when honest, seldom accomplish any appreciable good.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.
~ Milan Kundera
It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are. Their greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether they second him or not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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