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• The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.

  Ronald Reagan

  Law, Immigration, United States

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.858, Best Books on

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• When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Government, People

  Second Annual Message, December 1886.

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• The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Safety, History

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:”, p.732, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Rights, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.229, Penguin

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• I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Principles, Noses

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society no one should be compelled to take up arms, or be forced to kill or risk being killed... But who can blame prospective volunteers from doubting that there is a threat from Iraq? The Bush administration has yet to make a persuasive argument to that effect.

  Sheldon Richman

  Iraq, Volunteer, Risk

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• What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?

  Georges Bataille

  Doe, Murder, Ifs

  Georges Bataille (1962). “Erotism”, p.17, City Lights Books

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• Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Frustration, Law, Liberty

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• The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

  Maria Julia Hernandez

  Rights, People, Terrible

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• We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts based on poverty, discrimination and exclusion (social, economic and political) that continue to plague humanity and destroy decades of development efforts. The vicious circle of human rights violations that lead to conflicts-which in turn lead to more violations-must be broken. I believe we can break it only by ensuring respect for all human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Believe, Rights, Circles

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• It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Violation Of Human Rights, Government

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Violation Of Human Rights, Lgbt, Justified

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and accordingly, as if it were for charity to veil the violation of justice which lawmakers not only tolerated but at times sanctioned, wanted the whole care of supporting the poor committed to charity alone.

  Pope Pius XI

  Law, Justice, Veils

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence of a government-sponsored religion in America. This religion, a cloudy mixture of new-age mysticism, Native American folklore, and primitive Earth worship, is being promoted and enforced by the Clinton administration in violation of our rights and freedoms.

  Helen Chenoweth-Hage

  Native American, Emotional, Government

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• "Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God's laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Lying, Men, Law

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Nature, Imagination, Action

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• I think this president has so badly abused his power, breached his trust in remarkable ways with our Congress, with the American people, has violated so many of our international treaty obligations, our Constitution, our domestic statutory laws, and has been responsible for ordering and condoning heinous human rights violations. We need to draw the line.

  Rocky Anderson

  Thinking, Rights, Law

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• If my salary is taken without my agreement, it is a violation of my rights.

  Mu Sochua

  Taken, Rights, Agreement

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• Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

  Patrick Stewart

  Rights, Our Generation, Generations

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• In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

  Bernard Madoff

  Scandal, Today, Impossible

  "15 Most Loathsome People of 2008". Article by Allan Uthman, Ian Murphy, www.alternet.org. January 30, 2009.

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• I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone.

  Patrick Cleburne

  War, Believe, Home

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• Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you have a breakdown of organized society. And there is nothing compassionate about what's happening to the people of Arizona. There is nothing compassionate about the violation of private property rights. There is nothing compassionate about the abuse of the taxpayer. There is nothing compassionate about the closing of schools and hospitals. Nothing at all compassionate about increased drug trafficking and crime. Nothing compassionate about that at all.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Blessing, Rights

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• You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the border, and you've got people being killed now in Arizona. They are at their wits' end. Enforcing the law is the overall thing, and if there are some civil rights violations, so be it. That's how desperate the situation is. They want the law anyway.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rights, Law, Drug Cartels

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• Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence.

  George Washington

  Government, Hands, Constitution

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.142

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• The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical Corporations. [...] The establishment of the chaplainship to Congs. is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Evil

  "Monopolies. Perpetuities. Corporations. Ecclesiastical Endowments". Essay by James Madison, founders.archives.gov. Circa January 31, 1820.

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