"I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. ... I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. ... We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected." -John C. Danforth (1936- ) US Senator (MO-R) Source: in an interview in The Arizona Republic on April 22, 1992 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Danforth.Quote.B25E
"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen." -Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice Source: Burdeau v. McDowell, 1921
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Louis.Brandeis.Quote.8F2C
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress." -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mark.Twain.Quote.76F1
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