[MR] Waaaaaay OT: For those working at Federal facilities...

[Brian Bertrand]

"I maintain to you that one useless man is a disgrace, that two are a law
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-John Adams, 1776 the musical.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Roy B. Scherer <rscherer at lairhaven.com>wrote:

> At 07:10 AM 4/7/2011, you wrote:
>
>> Mark Twain said it best:
>>
>        [SNIP]
>        Well, yes, he generally did.  However, this quote:
>
>  "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
>> session."
>>
>        is not from Mark Twain, but is an excerpt from a court
> decision in New York state, way back in 1866.  The proper
> citation is "1 Tucker 248, N.Y. Surr. 1866"
>        As far as the lottery laws (and many others), I can only
> repeat Beadle Bumble's comment, quoted by Charles Dickens, in
> OLIVER TWIST:
>        "If the law says that, then the law is a ass -- a idiot!"
> -- YIS,
> -- Britton
>
> end
>
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