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Laws are never as effective as habits.

— Adlai Stevenson

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  1. Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
  2. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
  3. The whole notion of loyalty inquisitions is a national characteristic of the police state, not of democracy. The history of Soviet Russia i…
  4. A hungry man is not a free man.
  5. The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to ta…
  6. I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, w…
  7. Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
  8. What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us - what convictions,…

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  • law
  • effectiveness
  • habits

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