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Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.
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If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
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The confirmed criminal is as much entitled to redress as his most virtuous fellow citizen; no record of crime, however long, makes one an outlaw.