Robbery Quotes

I have not come here for such reasons. I have come to take away their gold.

What are kingdoms without justice but large bands of robbers?

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.

If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

There's always a little jump to your heart when you realize you've got looting.

Unless war is made something real for the Englishman in his own country, this robber and murderer will not recognize what it means for other people. Since the forces of [Dutch 17th century Admiral] de Ruyter, nobody has exploded a single bomb on England’s doorstep.

Thieves must sit in prison.

If you ignore the homicides, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

It is a naked fight against theft, and the thieves will not win.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.