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Crime is contagious

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 17, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories corruptionTags Louis D. Brandeis

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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