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"As a collection, our statute books might be summed up as beyond the average citizen's pocket to purchase, beyond his bookshelves to accommodate, beyond his leisure to study and beyond his intellect to comprehend." -- Sir Cecil Carr
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -- David Hume
"Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence." [22 In. L. R. 575 (1989) quoting Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961)]."The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." -- Edmund Burke (1729-97)
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." --James Madison
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