“I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.”

— Voltairine de Cleyre

The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
Context: I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one. On that basis it would not, as a matter of policy merely, be an economical institution.

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