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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.