There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.
To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.
Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.
We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.