Hey y’all, I have an orphan quote that I’m trying to connect up with its proper inheritance. LearnLiberty has recently been passing around an image macro with an unsourced quotation, attributed to Cicero, saying: *”The more laws, the less justice.” (Marcus Tullius Cicero) It’s a nice sentiment, but I am having trouble finding any evidence that Cicero said it, and it is raising a lot of red flags for a fake quote. (All I can find by searching for the English phrase is quite recent, and almost universally unsourced — mostly the quote is included in quote lists on web pages or in notable-quotations books; or else it is used, again without any specific citation, in popular writing. All of the popular writing I could find on the web or through Google Books that makes use of this quote comes from the last 15 years or so.) I’ve also seen the same quote attributed to other authors, and to an “old German proverb.” If there is somewhere in Cicero that this quote comes from, then where does it come from? If it’s not from Cicero, then where is it actually from?

Good. Shut them all down. #AbolishICE #ReleaseAllImmigrants #NoBorders #NoDeportation #NoDetention #NotOneMore

Good. Shut them all down. #AbolishICE #ReleaseAllImmigrants #NoBorders #NoDeportation #NoDetention #NotOneMore

David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bindage, ch. 11, “Sone Nineteenth Century Slave Conspiracies and Revolts.”

O.K., this is the shiniest of all possible outcomes

O.K., this is the shiniest of all possible outcomes

http://ift.tt/1IiDiH7 Senator Jeff Sessions isn’t against immigration. He’s just against illegal immigration. And also legal immigration. Is there a third kind of immigration? If so, he might be against that too. In all seriousness, here is Senator Jeff Sessions freaking out about the U.S. issuing a miniscule number of papers (<20% of the total demand), because Senator Jeff Sessions does not like having immigrants in the U.S. and thinks he and the U.S. government have a right to use massive force and police powers to tamp down the number of entries and lock out peaceful people who never did him any harm. This is a shameful position, justified by nativist fear-mongering, and he ought to be ashamed of advocating it. #AbolishTheSenate #AbolishJeffSessions #NoBorders #NoDeportations #NotOneMore

http://ift.tt/1IiDiH7 Senator Jeff Sessions isn’t against immigration. He’s just against illegal immigration. And also legal immigration. Is there a third kind of immigration? If so, he might be against that too. In all seriousness, here is Senator Jeff Sessions freaking out about the U.S. issuing a miniscule number of papers (<20% of the total demand), because Senator Jeff Sessions does not like having immigrants in the U.S. and thinks he and the U.S. government have a right to use massive force and police powers to tamp down the number of entries and lock out peaceful people who never did him any harm. This is a shameful position, justified by nativist fear-mongering, and he ought to be ashamed of advocating it. #AbolishTheSenate #AbolishJeffSessions #NoBorders #NoDeportations #NotOneMore

http://ift.tt/1Dr0Pn2 Anarchy in the Havana Times.

http://ift.tt/1Dj4Z5S Good for them. Shame on the French border cops. Let people travel freely. #NoBorders #AsylumForEveryone