$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ A good government is one "which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread that it has earned." --- Thomas Jefferson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" --- Thomas Jefferson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Freedom is indivisible. If individuals have the right to liberty, there can be no crime of blasphemy, just as there can be no crime of obscenity. One may condemn giving offense to others, but one may not use force to compel them to desist." --- Robert W. Poole, Jr. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated primarily for its benefit." --- George Stigler $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Those who can transform capital and resources into more of the same are artists of the highest sort....Yet they are often envied and hated." --- Patrick Cox 1989 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Both the rising population and rising life expectancy give the lie to the claims of critics...that the conditions of the laboring classes were deteriorating during the Industrial Revolution." --- Robert Hessen $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." --- unknown physics text $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters." --- Ayn Rand "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master." --- Abraham Lincoln $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Return to an agrarian world would mean the starvation and death of the great bulk of the current population. We are stuck with the industrial revolution, whether we like it or not." --- Murray Rothbard 1973 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "It will be of little avail to the people that laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be understood... or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be like tomorrow." --- James Madison $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Give all power to the many; they will oppress the few. Give all power to the few; they will oppress the many." --- Alexander Hamilton $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." --- A.E. van Vogt $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people and eat out their substance." --- Thomas Jefferson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself." --- Hilary Belloc $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." --- Lord Acton $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --- Benjamin Franklin $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing." --- Thomas Jefferson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" --- Patrick Henry $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." --- Theodosius Dobzhansky $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Life is not a seminar." --- Thomas Sowell $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Justice, n. A commodity which in more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes, and personal service." --- Ambrose Bierce $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Be wary of strong spirits. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss." --- Robert A. Heinlein $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines." --- Sir William Hamilton $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind. --- Sir William Hamilton $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Jazz is a true American art form. It represents the freedom Americans dream of, a kind of freedom as idealized through sound." --- Clint Eastwood $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Lean Liberty is better than Fat Slavery." --- John Ray $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "In any enterprise involving more than one person, the voluntary consent of all parties is required." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress." --- Mark Twain $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Diplomacy is the act of saying "Nice Doggie" until you can find a rock." --- Will Rogers $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Choice is not the mystery people make it out to be. Parents know the best schools in the district. Kids in a school know who the best teachers are. It's we professionals who make it seem like you need a Harvard doctorate to figure out whether this is a good school or not." --- Seymour Fliegel $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "As a criminal organization, the U.S. government makes the MAFIA look like a bunch of purse snatchers." --- Kevin S. Van Horn $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Q: What did they call 'the homeless' before rent control and housing policies? A: 'Renters'." --- Tom Isenberg $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "It is much less painful to sacrifice economic growth for environmental preservation if you've already got yours." --- Stephen Chapman $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Love means the need of memories to be recounted. Love means the talk of souls that spells magic, that quickens the beat of my aching heart." --- Jehan Sadat $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Liberty means responsibility; that is why most men dread it." --- G.B. Shaw $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." --- H.L. Menken $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "When goods don't cross borders, armies will." --- Frederic Bastiat $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If you protect a man from folly, you will find you have a nation of fools." --- William Penn $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave." --- William Pitt $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Just do it!" --- Nike $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." --- Frederic Bastiat $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must... undergo the fatigue of supporting it." --- Thomas Paine $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Every person who puts money into the hands of a 'government' (so called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against him, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will." --- Lysander Spooner $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Those who will take [one's] money, without his consent... will use it for his further robbery and enslavement..." --- Lysander Spooner $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Nothing is more fertile in prodigies than the art of being free; but there is nothing more arduous than the apprenticeship of liberty." --- Alexis de Tocqueville $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Society's needs come before the individual's needs." --- Adolf Hitler $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Audemus jura nostra defendere." (We dare to defend our rights.) --- Alabama state motto $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Audi alteram partem." (Hear the other side.) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Audaces fortuna juvat." (Fortune favors the bold.) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idones bello." (In peace, like a wise man, he prepares for war.) --- Horace (Satires) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Integer vitae scelerisque purus non eget mauris iaculis neque arcu." (A person of integrity, free of guilt, needs no weapon to defend himself.) --- Horace (Odes) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Montani semper liberi." (Mountaineers are always free.) --- West Virginia motto $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Qui bene amat bene castigat." (He who loves well chastises well.) --- Roman aphorism $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum." (Let he who desires peace prepare for war.) --- Vegetius $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito." (Don't yield to misfortune but advance all the more boldly against it.) --- Virgil (Aeneid) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Si vis pacem para bellum." (If you want peace, prepare for war.) --- Vegetius (Epitoma Rei Militaris) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Ubi libertas ibi patria." (Where there is liberty, there is my country.) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who will guard the guardians?) --- Juvenal (Satires) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Qui tacet consentit." (He who is silent consents.) --- Roman aphorism $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Res ipsa loquitur." (The facts speak for themselves.) --- Roman aphorism $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Amantium irae amoris integratio est." (Lovers' quarrels are a vital part of love.) --- Roman aphorism $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori." (Love conquers all, and we surrender to love.) --- Virgil $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Beneficium occipere libertatem est vendere." (To accept a favor is to sell one's liberty.) --- Publilius Syrus $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietam." (By the sword she seeks peaceful quiet under liberty.) --- Massachusetts motto $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Ense et aratro." (Sword and Plow.) This could very well be the motto of the Society of Cincinnatus or the militia. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Dum spiro spero." (While I breath, I hope.) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Dum vita est spes est." (While there's life, there's hope.) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Cedant arma togae." (Arms are subordinate to togas. I.e. The military power shall be subordinate to the civil.) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." --- u.S. Constitution $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The right of the people to keep and bear... arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free society." --- James Madison $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole of the people, except for a few public officials." --- George Mason $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "What, Sir is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." --- Eldridge Gerry (during floor debate over the 2nd amendment) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "...to disarm the people - that was the best and most effective way to enslave them." --- George Mason $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the united States." --- Noah Webster $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "...but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights.." --- Alexander Hamilton $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans posses over the people of almost every other nation... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." --- James Madison $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American.. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." --- Tench Coxe $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike especially when young, how to use them." --- Richard H. Lee $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The great object is that every man be armed... [and] everyone who is able may have a gun." --- Patrick Henry $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" --- Patrick Henry $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --- Alexander Hamilton $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the united States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..." --- Samuel Adams $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --- Thomas Jefferson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone." --- James Madison $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "...the people are confirmed by [the 2nd amendment] in their right to keep and bear their private arms." --- Philadelphia Federal Gazette $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." --- Patrick Henry $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence... From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable... The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good." --- George Washington $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If by 'anarchy' you mean chaos and disorder, that's the exact opposite of what I want. I'm for self- government, which means people governing their own lives and not trying to govern yours, and everyone taking more responsibility for themselves. It's been shown time and time again that that's the way to have the maximum of harmony and abundance in society. Actually, it is those who call for more political government - with all its violence and coercion - who are leading us in the direction of chaos and disorder." --- Steve Smith $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "What, then is the justification for civilian ownership of these very deadly weapons? Given the record of the institution known as government, it is far more reasonable to question the legitimacy of any weapon or even dangerous device in the hands of any group with as bloody a record as that institution has made during this century." (c)1989 John E. Sebastian, for which permission for unlimited reproduction is granted provided repro- ductions are attributed and this notice is included in the reproductions. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "...free individuals do not have to justify the tools or the means by which they choose to defend their liberty and their property." (c)1989 John E. Sebastian, for which permission for unlimited reproduction is granted provided repro- ductions are attributed and this notice is included in the reproductions. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "There is no odor so bad as that which rises from goodness tainted." --- Henry D. Thoreau $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Every man is an island, but there is no limit to the number of bridges that we can build." --- author unknown $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing what they could and should do for themselves. --- Abraham Lincoln (from a Celestial Seasonings package) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "A proper, philosophically valid definition of man as 'a rational animal', would not permit anyone to ascribe the status of 'person' to a few human cells." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Altruism holds death as its ultimate goal and standard of value." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The advocates of mysticism are motivated not by a quest for truth, but by a hatred for man's mind... the advocates of altruism are motivated not by compassion for suffering, but by hatred for man's life." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Politically, the goal of today's dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society's deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and slogans, but its actual view of man and of existence." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Beauty is a sense of harmony. Whether it's an image, a body, or a sunset, take the object which you call beautiful, as a unit [and ask yourself]; what parts is it made up of, what are its constituent elements, and are they harmonious? If they are, the result is beautiful." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Well before my retirement I came to be increasingly perplexed by what was going on in economics. I observed, in particular, a widespread disregard of basic propositions of the subject. Impressive advances coexisted with alarming retrogression." --- Peter Bauer $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Governments specialize in creating problems that they then generously solve for the people, creating yet more serious and more systemic problems." --- George Gilder $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If a government activity is to be privatized or eliminated, by all means do so completely. Do not compromise by partial privatization or | determined opponents who will work diligently and often successfully to reverse the change." --- Milton Friedman $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "One of the most dangerous things a man can do is to surrender his moral autonomy to others." --- Ayn Rand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "...there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely new one." --- Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "A man who cannot reason is a fool. A man who will not reason is a bigot. A man who dare not reason is a slave." --- William(?) Drummond $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I did not commit a crime. What I did was to fail to comply with the law." --- NY mayor Dinkins, accused of not paying taxes for a number of yrs. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Bureaucracy "covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate." --- Alexis de Tocquiville $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Only a brave person is willing honestly to admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers." --- Rodan of Alexandria $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Welfare isn't a safety net. It's a mouse trap." --- Tom Isenberg $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Schools in a republican government need no police regulations, no system of state censorship... Instead of consolidating the education interest of the Commonwealth in one grand central head and that head the government, let us rather hold on to the good old principles of our ancestors and diffuse and scatter this interest far and wide... not only into towns and districts but even into families and individuals." $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Semper ubi sub ubi." (Which means "Always wear under-wear". Well, sort of.) --- Chet Jankowski, Process Control, Inc. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Immigration: Do you advocate overthrow of the government by violence or subversion? Little Old Lady: Hmmmmm? Violence, I think. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "These opinions were created by a trained professional. Do not attempt to duplicate these thought processes at your home." --- Marty Albini $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "When you are alone, you are all your own." --- Leonardo da Vinci $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough to avoid being one. It is like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If they're willing to convert to IBM CMS, they'll convert to anything." --- Charles Severance Michigan State U. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The ownership [of cars] is discouraged in totalitarian societies. A mobile population is a population essentially out of control of centralized government." --- Brock Yates $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ The automobile is a "suit of armor with 200 horses inside, big enough to make love in. Once having tasted the delights of a society in which almost everyone can be a knight, it is hard to go back to being a peasant." --- Kenneth Boulding _The Green Life-style Handbook_ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ The "trouble is we don't have the political mechanisms to impose pain on citizens in a democratic society." --- Michael Walsh World Watch Institute $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Who could have thought a few years ago that we could grow diamond from swamp gas? Turning lead into gold pales by comparison." --- Michael Pinneo, Crystallume, Inc. Lasers & Optronics 1990 August $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The genteel British custom which made the holding of public office non-remunerative was sufficient to exclude the lower classes from politics. The liberal professions were a monopoly of the wealthy or their friends... Education was the nursery not of society but of an order, not of the state but of the ruling classes." --- Walter L. Dorn _Competition for Empire, 1740-1763_ (Harper & Brothers, NY, 1940) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I know that there is pain. But if you hold on for one more day you'll break free from the chains. Hold on for one more day." --- Wilson Phillips $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If [David Souter] were to tell me that he was going to interpret the Constitution [according to the understanding of the framers] and nothing else, I would not only vote against him, I would do everything in my power to defeat him." --- Sen. Joseph Biden $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The Advancement and diffusion of Knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." --- James Madison $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear." --- Freeman Dyson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I certainly hope that it goes to at least 33%. I think the American people are entitled to expect the wealthy to SERVE THEIR GOVERNMENT just as the poor and middle class do." --- Dan (I want more) Rostenkowski "...government is not reason; it is not eloquence - it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." --- George Washington $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "...; elected officials often lead people to their own destruction. But, keep in mind, those who follow, who seem as if they are being controlled, do so only as long as following satisfies them. When it no longer does, they not only stop following, they begin to struggle to gain or regain control of the situation." --- William Glasser $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Because we have a sense of the future, we will submit to indignities as long as we have hope, but there is a point at which we, too, will rebel even at the risk of our lives... There is a point beyond which none of us will submit to authority, but long before we reach that point, most of us will choose to suffer long-term pain and disability as our way of attempting to gain or to regain control over our lives." --- William Glasser $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." --- Arthur C. Clarke $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch." --- Oliver Wendell Holmes "In a democracy, the best disinfectant is sunshine." --- Pat Choate $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Q: How many libertarians does it take to change a light bulb? A: Libertarians never change light bulbs. Someone who would prefer to sit in the dark may enter the room. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Whether you think you can or think you can't - you're right." --- Henry Ford $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "A man is literally what he thinks." --- James Allen $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Most companies have committees that judge applicants only by college degrees, college board scores, experience, background, references, recommendations, and so on. "Dumb. Dumb. Dumb... "There never has been and there never will be a test that can look inside a person and tell if he has what it takes. No one can accurately judge a person by looking at his background." --- Arthur L. Williams $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The first amendment to the constitution says 'Congress shall make no law limiting free speech.' This comes with costs. Obscenity is that cost." --- Michael Metzger $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." --- Edmund Burke $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the governement assumes other functions, it is usurpation and oppression." --- Alabama constitution $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work..." --- Daniel H. Burnham $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The will to win means nothing if you have not the will to prepare." --- Juma Ikangaa $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The only constitutional rule I can think of that is still fully observed is electing two senators from each state." --- George Roche, President, Hillsdale College $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The two organizations that would most be interested in huge central data bases would be the Federal Government and Organized Crime, assuming you see a difference between the two." --- Ted Nelson, Computer Lib $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The Constitution isn't perfect, but it's better than what we have now." --- John David Galt $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it." --- Albert Einstein $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "To the bean counters: Drop Dead!" --- Rear Admiral Thomas Davies, ret. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Data Control and [that other company]. Science is Mankind's brother." --- Jefferson Airplane $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Now we are managing people paid for their knowledge. We have never done that, and we don't know how to do it." --- Peter Drucker $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Whereas manual workers have been tied to their jobs by fear, lack of skills and ignorance, young people today have no horizons; they can move." --- Peter Drucker $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "People who are difficult to supervise and free to leave, people who think for themselves, who question authority are a leader's best source of information and only hope for achieving organizational goals." --- John Naisbitt & Patricia Aburdeen $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "An employee without the information cannot take responsibility. With information, he cannot avoid taking it." --- Jan Carlzon, Scandinavian Airline $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child." --- Cicero $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If justice is only meted out when it is easy or convenient to do so, then the [Constitution] isn't worth the parchment it's printed on." --- Robert A. Heinlein, "Methuselah's Children" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I'd simply ask them not to be afraid to be themselves. To think for themselves. To not simply just believe what others tell them without question - without figuring out if it's right or not. That's what God gave you a mind for - to think with. So do some thinking. And above all, don't get mad if someone else doesn't agree with you." --- Nancy Kulp $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The workings of the economy parallel the functions of the ecosystem. If organizations follow the same principles of form and function that govern the evolution of organisms, then there is but one mode of economic organization. An economic system that clashes with fundamental life processes is a profound aberration from the natural way in which economic activity spontaneously organizes itself." --- Michael Rothschild, "Bionomics" (Henry Holt, 1990) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "They came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up." --- Martin Niemoeller (Dachau, 1945) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do." --- Auberon Herbert $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Studies show that the productivity of impaired workers is 25% less lower than non-users." --- Partnership for a Drug-Free Work-place $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" --- Tacitus $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "There are no new ideas - only new ways to express them." --- Igor Stravinsky $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The more I study religion, the more I become convinced that man has never worshiped anything except himself." --- Richard Burton $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "It is not only [the juror's] right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court." --- John Adams, 1771 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution." --- Thomas Jefferson, 1789 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy." --- John Jay (GA v Brailsford, 1794) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts." --- Samuel Chase, 1804 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ The jury has "unreviewable and irreversible power to acquit in disregard of the instruction given by the trial judge." --- US v Dougherty, 1972 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it. In America we tax work, growth, investment, employment, savings, productivity, initiative and ability, while subsidizing non-work, consumption, welfare and debt. Isn't it time to allow our people to probe, test, prove their character and sensibilities, to be inspired to growth and initiative?" --- Jack Kemp $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Programming : The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper." --- Nick Donaldson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "sendmail - as easy to operate and as painless as using manually powered dental tools on yourself" --- John R. MacMillan $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "It is of more importance to the community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in the world that all of them cannot be punished, and many times they happen in such a manner that it is not of much consequence to the public whether they are punished or not. But when innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, 'It is immaterial to me whether I do well or ill, for virtue is no security.'. And if such sentiment as this should take place in the mind of the subject there would be an end to all security whatsoever." --- John Adams $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests', I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." --- Barry Goldwater $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The institution known as 'Government' cannot continue to exist unless many a man is willing to be Government's agent in commiting what he himself regards as an abominable crime." --- Benjamin R. Tucker $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I swear eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --- Voltaire? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If you don't do it, who will? If not now, when?" --- Talmud $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "an.ar.chism \'an-r-,kiz-m, -,r-\ n (1642) 1: a political theory holding all forms of governmental authority to be unnecessary and undesirable and advocating a society based on voluntary cooperation and free association of individuals and groups" --- Miron Cuperman $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Alas how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long, And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again. --- Goerge MacDonald $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Truth : the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death." --- John Gilmore $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "There is no political gain in silence and submission." --- Sidney Abbot $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ :-(he's dyed Blue of course -- can't recall whether a Macintosh is a raincoat or something to eat :-) --- Murph Sewall $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "You may think that the Constitution is your security - it is nothing but a piece of paper. You may think that the statutes are your security - they are nothing bu words in a book. You may think that elaborate mechanism of government is your security - it is nothing at all unless you have sound and uncorrupted public opinion to give life to your Constitution, to give vitality to your statutes, to make efficient your machinery." --- Charles Evans Hughes $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The Privacy Act, if enforced would be a pretty good thing. But the government doesn't like it. Government has an insatiable appetite for power, and it will not stop usurping power unless it is restrained by laws they cannot repeal or nullify. There are mighty few laws they cannot nullify." --- Sam Ervin $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "In a totalitarian society, the first right to go is the right of privacy. Can we risk losing that right to the principal of cost-benefit?" --- David F. Linowes $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world." --- Epictetus $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." --- Louis D. Brandeis $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The proper function of government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil." --- William Gladstone $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The loss of privacy is a key symptom of one of the fundamental social problems of our age; the growing power of large public and private institutions in relation to the individual citizen." --- David Burnham $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond." --- Edward McDonagh $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Privacy is the penumbra of the Bill of Rights." --- William O. Douglas $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Freedom is like a rope made of several strands. Weaken or remove one strand, and the rope is weakened... There are bad people in the world, ever watchful for opportunities to seize dominance over others. For good people to stand idly by is to welcome the erosion and eventual collapse of all our freedoms." --- David F. Linowes $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never shall be." --- Thomas Jefferson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "As knowledge advances, so does the productivity per hour." --- Kendrick $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." --- Thomas Jefferson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Axiom : If IBM were responsible for evolution, the dinosaurs would still roam the earth. Corollary : However, they would put a hell of a lot of money into R&D." --- Brian Ignatow $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current." --- Thomas Jefferson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The bible is not my book, and christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of christian dogma." --- Abraham Lincoln $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "In a democratic society, rights are inherent to individuals, and among these rights is the right to privacy" --- Legislative Intent: Personal Information Integrity Act of 1991 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable." --- William J. Brennan $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "There are individuals in society whom no great crisis can lift from the deep ruts of egoism in which they are sunk." --- Piotr Kropotkin $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "... it is not over because it has not been my blood, him cutting, me bleeding, the way a man and a woman do it. Others say: oh, he is gay, don't worry, he doesn't want THAT. Others say:oh, don't be silly, he can't want THAT. Oh, he can't want THAT. I want to but it. He can't want THAT. The raped don't do that to the raped, I want to believe." --- Andrea Dworkin _Ice and Fire_ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Was ich mochte, ist es viel? Einmal in dem tristen Leben Einem Mann, mich hinzugeben; Ist das ein zu hohes Ziel? Ist das ein zu hohes Ziel?" --- Brecht, Dreigroschenoper $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Conclusion: When in Rome, do as Romans do. (but I must confess that after three years of MVS experience I hated their way of doing things :-)." --- Akira Takiguchi $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Stephen J. Patrick, director of computing services [at Bradley U], claims that he wishes to maintain freedom of speech over the system. The only case in which direct action would be taken would be when something inappropriate would be placed in the notes." --- David Vessell $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I'm sorry. If you were right, I would agree with you." --- Dr. Malcolm Sayer, _Awakenings_ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." --- Thomas Jefferson, 1801-03-04 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "... though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." --- Thomas Jefferson, 1801-03-04 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall." --- Thomas Paine, _The Age of Reason_ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Re-examine all you have been told.. Dismiss what insults your soul." --- Walt Whitman. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." --- Barry Goldwater (Karl Hess) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "For philosophically committed people, politics is primarily a contest over public policy. The measure is not what people, but what ideas win." --- Morton C. Blackwell $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Excerpt from conversation between customer support person and customer working for a well-known military-affiliated research lab: Support: "You're not our only customer, you know." Customer: "But we're one of the few with tactical nuclear weapons." $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The less you know about home computers, the more you'll want the new IBM PS/1." --- Ad in The Edmonton Journal $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Real Americans talk About Why They Chose the Sun SPARCstation 2000 (tm): "Last week we had a fella from Digital come out and look at the soybean crop. After 20 minutes, Ma chased him off and threw his keyboard out the window. We`re from old Norwegian stock, and we know a thing or two about bus controllers." --- Buck Flange, Arkansas, Texas $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." --- Thomas Jefferson _Notes_on_Virginia_ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Was nicht toetet, huetet." --- F. Nietzsche $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Those who make non-violent revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." --- Martin Luther King $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" when translated into Russian and then translated back again became... "The vodka is good but the meat stinks" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations." --- David Friedman _The_Machinery_of_Freedom_ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." --- Napoleon Bonaparte $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "They who have no property can have no freedom, but indeed are reduced to the most abject slavery." --- Stephen Hopkins $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws." --- Alexander Hamilton $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Taxes upon consumption, from their very nature, never can effectually be carried into operation without vesting the officers appointed to collect them with powers most dangerous to the civil right of freemen, and must in the end destroy the liberties of every country in which they are introduced." --- Gazette of the US, 1792 Sept. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Free government, in any country, naturally verges by imperceptible advances to tyranny, unless corrected by the vigilance of the people. Nothing but the perpetual jealousy of the governed has ever been found effectual against the machinations of ambition." --- National Gazette, 1792-01-16 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Even the House of Representatives must necessarily be too limited in point of numbers, and in point of information will possess too little knowledge of the citizens, and too feeble a participation in the particular circumstances of the subjects of taxation [to levy taxes justly].... This is sufficient to demonstrate that the federal government never was intended to embrace extensive internal powers; and that the powers... which it possesses were only intended for emergencies, in which the preservation of the government itself was at risk." --- National Gazette, 1792-05-24 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "When the vestiture of extensive internal powers in the federal legislature gave a general alarm to the people of the US, the best advocates for its adoption, and such as were most active in its formation, declared that those powers would not be exercised, except in the last resort, and that particularly the powers of levying internal excises could only be practicable when every other resource failed, and when pressing danger would, by producing conviction of the necessity of the measure, insure its success." --- National Gazette, 1792-05-21 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Reason should govern one man - it should govern all men - it is opposed by passion, which should never govern at all." --- Gazette of the US, 1792-01-16 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "An internal tax on consumption essentially differs from a tax on visible property because, in the last case, nothing is more requisite than an account of what a man appears to be possessed of, whilst, in the other, it is necessary to know the quantity and quality of the article consumed; and in order to attain that knowledge a severe inquisition must take place... and... extraordinary and dangerous powers must be given to the collectors." --- Albert Gallatin $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The caveman had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today." --- Thomas Sowell $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist." --- John Maynard Keynes $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I am convinced that if [the market system] were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the price changes understood that their decisions have significance far beyond their immediate aim, this mechanism would have been acclaimed as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind." --- Friedrich Hayek $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "... in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." --- Benjamin Franklin $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority." --- Stanley Milgram $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Make your learning a fixture; Say little and do much; And receive everyone with a friendly attitude." --- Sean Philip Engelson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Every major contraction in this country has been either produced by monetary disorder or greatly exacerbated by monetary disorder. Every major inflation has been produced by monetary expansion." --- Milton Friedman $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ DRUMMOND (shouting) Yes! (His voice drops, intensely. Crossing into c.) The individual human mind. (To spectators.) In a child's power to master the multiplication table there is more sanctity than in all your shouted "Amens!" "Holy, Holies!" and "Hosannas!" An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters! But are we now to halt the march of progress because Mr. Brady frightens us with a fable? (Crossing to the jury, reasonably.) Gentlemen, progress has never been a bargain. You've got to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man behind a counter who says, "All right, you can have a telephone; but you'll have to give up privacy, the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote; but at a price; you lose the right to retreat behind a powder-puff or a petticoat. (Crossing into c. pointing to the sky.) Mister, you may conquer the air; but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline." (Thoughtfully, seeming to look beyond the courtroom.) Darwin moved us forward to a hilltop, where we could look back and see the way from which we came. But for this view, this insight, this knowledge, we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis. -- From "Inherit the Wind", a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, copyright 1951 by the authors. The excerpt above is from the Dramatists Play Service, Inc. edition, undated, page 67. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be lighted." --- Plutarch $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Race conscious remedies are dangerous. We were raised to survive in spite of government sanctioned bigotry." --- Clarence Thomas $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "A society that is willing to give up its personal freedoms to save itself from drug abuse has already surrendered to the wrong enemy." --- Jon Margolis $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Religion is a defense mechanism against religious experiences." --- Carl Jung $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The greater an individual's power over others, the greater the evil that might possibly originate with him." --- Propaganda from "A Secret Wish" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Yes! The individual human mind. In a child's power to master the multiplication table there is more sanctity than in all your shouted 'Amens!', 'Holy, Holies!' and 'Hosannas!'. An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!" --- from "Inherit the Wind" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights" --- Clarence Thomas $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "As a people, we need to find solutions to problems through independence, perseverence, and integrity." --- Clarence Thomas $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Lietuva laisva free Lithuania Brivu Latviju free Latvia Eesti vabaks free Estonia $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We cannot long maintain our present rate of increase of consumption; the cost of fuel must rise, perhaps within a lifetime, to a rate injurious of our commercial and manufacturing supremacy; and the conclusion is inevitable, that our present happy progressive condition is a thing of limited duration." --- William Jevons, 1865 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We no longer expect results from government. What was a torrid romance between the people and government for so long has now become a tired middle-aged liaison which we do not quite know how to break off." --- Peter Drucker $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Protectionism is a politician's delight because it delivers visible benefits to the protected parties while imposing the costs as a hidden tax on the public." --- Murray L. Weidenbaum $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." --- William Safire $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "It's a nitwit idea. Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. The rest of the time you go by the Book, which is mostly a collection of nitwit ideas that worked." --- Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We've always been people who insisted on our rights." --- Sandy d'Alemberte $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We may not have had lengthy litigious lawsuits [in the colonial period], but we damned sure had a lot of them." --- Sandy d'Alemberte $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Law schools don't even pretend that they're teaching people to practice law." --- Sandy d'Alemberte $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Big machines to make big decisions, programmed by fellows with compassion and vision. We'll be clean when their work is done, ... eternally free, yes, eternally young. What a wonderful world it will be. What a glorious time to be free." --- Donald Fagen (International Geophysical Year) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we would soon want bread." --- Thomas Jefferson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." --- C.A. Beard $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We fought too long and too hard to make people stop saying blacks looked alike - but I say it is a far greater evil that many people say blacks think alike." --- Clarence Thomas, 1983 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women and it will be as bad as before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring, because if we wait 'til it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again." --- Sojourner Truth 1868-05-09 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The simplest truths often meet with the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance." --- Frederick Douglass 1870-10-06 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration (of Independence), is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given, if the right to vote be denied." --- Susan B. Anthony 1873 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being." --- Lydia Marie Child c.1875 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck." --- Frederick Douglass 1883-10-22 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may." --- Frederick Douglass 1883-09 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot." --- Robert G. Ingersoll 1884 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The race problem is a moral one. ... Its solution will come especially from the domain of principles. Like all the other great battles of humanity, it is to be fought out with the weapons of truth." --- Alexander Crummell 1888-11-20 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "This country should be agitated and even convulsed 'til the battle of liberty is won and every man in the land is guaranteed every civil and political right." --- Alexander Crumell 1888-11-20 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being whatever may be the sex or complexion." --- William Lloyd Garrison 1885-89 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "There is no security for the personal or political rights of any man in a community where any man is deprived of his personal or political rights." --- Benjamin Harrison 1892-09-03 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another; the word man defines all rights." --- Jose Marti' 1893 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful." --- John Marshall Harlan 1896 Plessy v Ferguson dissenting $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race." --- William Howard Taft 1913 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Rights that depend on the sufferance of the State are of uncertain tenure." --- Suzanne LaFollette 1926 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "There is only one right in the world and that right is one's own strength." --- Adolf Hitler 1928-09 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the 4th day they will say, 'To hell with you.'." --- Nikita S. Khrushchev 1964-10-04 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "In a non-violent movement there must be a latent threat of eruption, a dormant possibility of sudden and violent action if concessions are to be won, respect gained, and the established order altered." --- George Jackson 1967-03 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We must realize that today's Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution." --- William O. Douglas 1970 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." --- Hannah Arendt 1970-09-12 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed." --- Germaine Greer 1970 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the People over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity." --- Mao Zedong 1976-09-20 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "It is easier to run a revolution than a government." --- Ferdinand E. Marcos 1977-06-06 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness." --- Thomas Jefferson 1776-07-04 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." --- Thomas Jefferson, referring to slavery, 1782 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights." --- Sir William Blackstone 1783 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can." --- Thomas Jefferson 1787-03-15 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest in inferences." --- Thomas Jefferson 1787-12-20 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those rights better secured." --- Thomas Paine 1791 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights." --- James Madison 1792-03-29 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of woman, by parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in the country." --- Mary Wollstonecraft 1792 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right." --- James Madison 1829-12-02 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights." --- Jeanne-Francoise Deroin 1836 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded." --- Abraham Lincoln 1837-01 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "They have rights who dare maintain them." --- James Russell Lowell 1844 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The true Republic: men: their rights and nothing more; women: their rights and nothing less." --- Susan B. Anthony 1867 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "That ... man ... says women can't have as much rights as man, cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from? ... From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with it." --- Sojourner Truth 1851 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The rights and interests of every or any person are only secure from being disregarded, when the person interested is himself able, and habitually disposed, to stand up for them." --- John Stuart Mill 1861 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." --- Abraham Lincoln 1864-04-04 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The makers of your Constitution sought to protect Americans... They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men." --- Louis D. Brandeis Olmstead v US $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the natural rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." --- Thomas Jefferson $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." --- Eleanor Franklin "If everyone lit a single candle... we'd all die from the pollution." --- Ace B. Carruthers $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." --- E.W.Dijkstra, 1975-06-18 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The Democrats have changed their emblem from the donkey to the condom, because condoms inflate, halt production, protect pricks, and give a false sense of security while screwing the public." --- author unknown $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I never would have had my first job if I had to make the minimum wage." --- Clarence Thomas $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives." --- Clarence Thomas $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be." --- US Supreme Ct. Westbrook v Mihaly $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Bow to no patron's insolence; rely on no frail hopes, in freedom live and die." --- Seneca $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C," and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism". --- Barry Goldwater $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money." --- David Crockett $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I think it is beyond question, that man has a clear idea of his own being; he knows certainly he exists, and that he is something. He that can doubt whether he be anything or no, I speak not to; no more than I would argue with pure nothing, or endeavour to convince nonentity that it were something. If anyone pretends to be so sceptical as to deny his own existence, (for really to doubt of it is manifestly impossible) let him for me enjoy his beloved happiness of being nothing, until hunger or some other pain convince him of the contrary. This then, I think I may take for a truth, which everyone's certain knowledge assures him of, beyond the liberty of doubting, viz. that he is SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY EXISTS." --- John Locke $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Quite often, without our knowing about it, people who are not so fortunate as we, have a great fear of the federal government. It is almost as though our own government is our enemy or is foreign to our lives." --- Jimmy Carter $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The [Ford] Foundation is a creature of capitalism - a statement that I'm sure would be shocking to many professional staff people in the field of philanthropy. It is hard to discren recognition of this fact in anything the Foundation does... I'm just suggesting to the trustees that the system that makes the Foundation possible is very probably worth preserving." --- Henry Ford II $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people." --- Thomas Jefferson 1823 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We seem to have reached a stage, in our national evolution, where we have a vested interest in preparation for war. It has become necessary for us to have a powerful enemy... Russia could revert to free enterprise; or erstore an hereditary Czardom, tomorrow; and still our Secretary of State would be compelled to question her bona fides... because our economy apparently needs the constant stimulus of a threat of large-scale war." --- Felix Morley 1957 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Wheels within wheels in a spiral array, a pattern so grand and comples. Time after time we lose sight of the way, our causes can't see their effects." --- Rush $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that doesn't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous." --- Will Rogers $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "We must beware of the dangers that lie in our most generous wishes. Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion." --- Lionel Trilling $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions." --- Learned Hand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If only those who wanted to learn had to go to school, that would make education what it should be. Compulsory education has run the course of its usefulness, and become a prison." --- Carl Rogers $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "[The IRS -] if you make it, they'll take it." --- John E. Erb $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "A theory of conduct that includes no explicit doctrine of human rights is a theory without a vital center, and no theory that assesses the rightness of acts in terms of consequences alone can ever provide it." --- John Hospers $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Despite many reports of cocaine's ill effects on the developing fetus, scientists lack definitive evidence specifically linking cocaine to adverse reproductive effects. Using a powerful statistical technique, a Canadian research team has found that cocaine by itself causes very few problems during pregnancy." --- Science News, 1991-11-09 (vol140 #19) Pg 302 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "If everybody says different things it's because they're right." --- Tristan Tzara $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Apart from constitutional considerations, no-knock laws are bad. If its people are to have a respect for law, a nation must have respectable laws, and no law is respectable if it authorizes officers to act like burglars, and robs the people of the only means they have for determining whether those who seek to invade their habitations violently or by steath are officers or burglars." --- Sam Erwin $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The ultimate aspect of the privacy issue is the possibility of complete social control." --- Robert Ellis Smith $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "For the over-taxed, over-regulated, over-burdened and under-powered millions of the American middle class... [the Libertarian Party candidates] are the only people worth voting for." --- Nicholas von Hoffman Washington Post 1974-10-25 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men, I will plead; but with tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." --- Wm Lloyd Garrison $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The condition upon which god has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." --- John Philpot Curran 1790 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$