If legislators come to believe that police power is an ever-present constitutional trump card they can play whenever it suits them, overreaching is inexorable.


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I would rather start a family than finish one.
DON MARQUIS
now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out ...
DON MARQUIS
The American Judicial System is the best appearance of justice that money can buy!
DON MASHAK
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but b...
DON DELILLO
For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.
DON HUTSON
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
DON HEROLD
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when th...
DON DELILLO
Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun
DON HENLEY
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a...
DON BARTHELME
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the tw...
DON DELILLO
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
DON GALER
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
DON MARQUIS
a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely somethin...
DON MARQUIS
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
DON MARQUIS
Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.
DON HAYS
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t...
DON DELILLO
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
DON MARQUIS
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance....
DON DELILLO
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
DON MARQUIS
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustai...
DON DELILLO
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
DON MARQUIS
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that ga...
DON MARQUIS
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
DON KNUTH
The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accou...
DON MASHAK
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless...
DON DELILLO