Juan Domingo de Monteverde y Rivas Quotes
Four walls are three too many for a prison — you only need one for an execution
This quotation is often incorrectly ascribed to Joseph Stalin whose approach to dissidents comported with Monteverde.
Juan Domingo de Monteverde y Rivas, 1773-1832, Spanish Soldier, Governor and Captain General of Venezuela, Instructions to his staff in trying to put down the Bolivar Revolution in Venezuela
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It is unfortunately too common that people have been convicted and jailed because of misconduct of the police or prosecutors. Most criminal justice agencies in recent years have examined their methods and procedures and reforms are in progress. But there is still a human problem. For an example see Quote
Although English, Cobett spent time in America and published a newspaper, The Porcupine Gazette, in Philadelphia. We was very conservative but on the issue of slavery his resembled a liberal point of view. He never used sugar, coffee, or rum because slave labor produced them. However, he advocated legally enslaving lazy people, blacks and whites, who would not work.
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