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Do you believe that all "inflammatory" books should be stored in libraries,
since no honest person needs such a book at home where a child might read it?
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Does this statement make you want to register books, or ban some of them,
or prevent them from being read in public?
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Should there be a waiting period for the purchase of "dangerous" books,
magazines, and newspapers?
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Should speed reading courses be restricted to police and military to prevent
"assault reading" by citizens?
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Do you think that banning legal possession of easily-concealed novels will
stop criminals from reading?
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Should we stop teaching children to read, since what they might read could
be harmful to them?
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"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we
fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military giant to step
the ocean and crush us with a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and
Africa combined with a Bonaparte at their head and disposing of all the
treasure of the earth, our own excepted, could not by force make a track on the
Blue Ridge or take a drink from the Ohio in a trial of a thousand years.  At
what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever
reach us it must spring up from amongst us. It cannot come from abroad.  If
destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a
nation of free men, we must live through all times, or die by suicide."
<BR>--Abraham Lincoln, 1838:
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise
their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to
dismember it or overthrow it."
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"If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole
people is to be fixed by decisions of the supreme Court, then the people
will have ceased to be their own rulers."
<BR>--Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861:
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"... the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon
vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by
decisions of the supreme Court, ... the people will have ceased to be their
own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into
the hands of that eminent tribunal."
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"If I don't have to do it, it only shows that you don't have to either."
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"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do
not all mean the same thing."
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"We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts
- not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert
the Constitution."
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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
<BR>--Abraham Lincoln
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"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is
not... the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and
disciplined army... our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has
planted in our bosoms."
<BR>--Abraham Lincoln, 1858
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<B>So far, no one has been able to verify the following quote:</B>
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"1935 will go down in History! For the first time, a civilized nation has
full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient
and the world will follow our lead to the future!"
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Adolf Hitler, 1936 Decree:  "A decision of the Fuhrer in the express form of a
law or decree may not be scrutinized by a judge.  In addition, the judge is
bound by any other decision of the Fuhrer, provided that they are clearly
intended to declare law."
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Adolf Hitler, Edict of 18 March 1938 (or 1939?) (can anyone verify this
quote?):  "... history shows that all conquerors who have allowed their
subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall"
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Adolf Hitler, `Mein Kamph':  "If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses,
then you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things."
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Alan Bock, `Orange County Register':  "The median family of four ... paid
$4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for
the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres
with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from
the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000
bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime.  Surely civilization would
collapse without such essential services."
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Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921:  "The prestige of
government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law.
For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of
the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that
the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with
this."
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Albert Einstein:  "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
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Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, 7 October 1789:  "The whole
of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or
considered as individuals...  It establishes some rights of the individual as
unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."
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Hamilton didn't argue that a select militia made a general militia unnecessary,
but rather that a general militia was insufficient by itself to adequately
protect the nation:    (Federalist 28 or 29?)
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    "But so far from viewing the matter in the same light with those who
     object to select corps as dangerous, were the Constitution ratified,
     and were I to deliver my sentiments to a member of the federal
     legislature from this State on the subject of a militia establishment,
     I should hold to him, in substance, the following discourse:
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    `The project of disciplining all the militia of the United
     States is as futile as it would be injurious, if it were capable of
     being carried into execution.  A tolerable expertness in military
     movements is a business that requires time and practice.  It is not
     a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.
     To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes
     of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through
     military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to
     acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the
     character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to
     the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss.  It would
     form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country,
     to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the
     people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil
     establishments of all the States.  To attempt a thing which would
     abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent,
     would be unwise: and the experiment, if made, could not succeed,
     because it would not long be endured.  Little more can reasonably be
     aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them
     properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not
     neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in
     the course of a year.
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Alexander Hamilton, collected in Federalist Paper 28, originally in the
10 January, 1788, "Daily Advertiser":  "If the representatives of the people
betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion
of that original right of self-defence which is paramount to all positive forms
of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be
exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against the rulers of
an individual state.  In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme
power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of
which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular
measures for defense.  The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without
concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair."
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Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper 29 (on the organization of the militia):
"Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large,
than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be
not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the
course of a year."  {V}{FF}{RKBA}
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Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper 29 (speaking of standing armies):  "... 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 the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and
those of their fellow-citizens." {V}{FF}{RKBA}
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Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper 79 (regarding payment of Judges):  "In the
general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a
power over his will." {V}{FF}
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Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188 (cannot verify!):  "The
best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly
armed."
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Alexander Hamilton, advice to jurors to acquit against the judge's
instructions:  "... if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty
they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong."
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Hamilton, Federalist #84:
"I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the
extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the
proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous.  They would contain
various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would
afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare
that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?  Why, for
instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be
restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed?
I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power;
but it is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a
plausible pretense for claiming that power."
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Alexis de Tocqueville:  "The American Republic will endure, until politicians
realize they can bribe the people with their own money."
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Alexis de Tocqueville:  "To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough
for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas and
passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal."
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Alexis de Tocqueville:  "Where are we then?  The religionists are the enemies
of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the
noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach
independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress,
whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of
civilization and intelligence.  Has such been the fate of the centuries which
have preceded our own?  and has man always inhabited a world like the present,
where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius
without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for
oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light
thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any
longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?"
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Algernon Sidney (1672):  "The only ends for which governments are constituted,
and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of justice and protection;
and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such
ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety."
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Andrew Ford (UseNet):  "The price of liberty is, always has been, and always
will be blood: The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already
lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that
person's liberty! Are you free?"
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Andrew Ford (UseNet):  "Without either the first or second amendment, we would
have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second
allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first,
followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms."
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Andrew Jackson, 8th Annual Message to Congress (Dec 5, 1836):  "It is apparent
from the whole context of the Constitution as well as the history of the times
which gave birth to it, that it was the purpose of the Convention to establish
a currency consisting of the precious metals.  These were adopted by a
permanent rule excluding the use of a perishable medium of exchange, such as
certain agricultural commodities recognized by the statutes of some States as
tender for debts, or the still more pernicious expedient of paper currency."
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Aristotle:  "Money being naturally barren, to make it breed money is
preposterous, and a perversion from the end of its institution, which was only
to serve the purpose of exchange and not of increase. . . Usury is most
reasonably detested as the increase arises from the money itself, and not by
employing it to the purpose for which it was intended."
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Benjamin Disraeli:  "The world is governed by far different personages than
what is imagined by those not behind the scenes."
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Benjamin Franklin, 1759 (Franklin B. Historical Review of Pennsylvania. 1759):
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety