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“He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianitya state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.”
—Norman Douglas (18681952)
“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
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