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"The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power."
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"We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells…"
— Abraham Lincoln
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