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The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (2010). “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World”, p.73, Macmillan

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

Jack Uldrich, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (2004). “Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis and Clark's Daring Westward Adventure”, p.168, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

It should never be a crime to be gay.

International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.306