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deserve neither liberty nor safety."  {V}{FF}{RKBA}
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Benjamin Franklin, before the Constitutional Convention, (June 2, 1787):  "...
as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant
kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain
more for its support, and the other to pay less.  And this has alone occasioned
great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the
Princes, or enslaving of the people.  Generally indeed the ruling power carries
its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they
are never satisfied, but always in want of more.  The more the people are
discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of
money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress
all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure.  There is scarce a king
in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah, get
first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their
children servants for ever ..."
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Benjamin Franklin, letter to the French Ministry March 1778:  "He who shall
introduce into public affairs the principle of primitive Christianity will
change the face of the world."
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Benjamin Franklin:  "Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to
be just, must be uniform."
<HR>
Bill McIntire, Spokesman for the National Rifle Association, on Norfolk, Va.
council's vote to cancel four gun shows, 1992:  "Banning gun shows to reduce
violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken
driving."
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"Guns cause crime, like flies cause garbage."  --Author unknown.
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Bob Emmers, `Orange County Register':  "The task of government in this
enlightened time does not extend to actually dealing with problems.  Solving
problems might put bureaucrats out of work.  No, the task of government is to
make it look as though problems have been solved, while continuing to keep the
maximum number of consultants and bureaucrats employed dealing with them."
<HR>
Boyd Crabtree:  "We are ignorant of what we ignore."
<HR>
Bruce A. Budlong, Dept. of the Treasury (1977):  "The same monetary system that
was established on April 2, 1792, is in effect today."
<HR>
Butler D. Shaffer, Southwestern School of Law, Los Angeles:  "Let us go back in
time to the point at which we began to allow others to operate as authorities
over us, and begin to confront the proposition that others have rightful power
over our lives, that others have expertise superior to anything we could ever
know on our own.  Let us respond to such a proposition as any 3-year old would
to anything so palpably absurd: "Why?" /P/ When we relearn to ask such
questions - and to ask them of anyone who seeks to advance his or her authority
over us - we shall have discovered the way to our psychological independence."
<HR>
Byron C. Radaker, Chairman and C.E.O., Congoleum Corp.:  "Our government has
found that the most effective way to control a person is not by the the ballot
or the bullet, but rather by the 'bucket'.  Today, in a country that fought a
revolution to rid itself of a repressive government and excessive taxes,
government takes 40 percent of everything we earn in the form of taxes."
<HR>
California citizen attempting to purchase a firearm for self-defense during
rioting in Los Angeles, week of 30 April 1992:  "What do you mean 'wait
fifteen days'? This is America!"
<HR>
Calvin Coolidge:  "Nothing is easier than spending public money.  It does not
appear to belong to anybody.  The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on
somebody."
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Charles A. Beard:  "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."
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Charles Evans Hughes, Justice of the supreme Court (1907):  "...  the
Constitution is what the judges say it is."
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Charlie Chaplin, "The Little Dictator":  "Dictators free themselves by
enslaving others.  They work not for your benefit, but their own."
<HR>
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, 12th Chief Justice, US supreme Court, 1941:
"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided."
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Chief Justice John Jay, 1st Chief Justice, US supreme Court (Georgia vs.
Brailsford, 1794:4):  "The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as
the fact in controversy."
<HR>
Chief Justice John Marshall:  "The government of the United States has been
emphatically termed a government of laws and not men."
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Chief Justice Joseph Story, US supreme Court (_Commentaries on the Constitution
of the United States_, pp 746-747 (1833)):  "The right of the citizen to keep
and bear arms has justly been considered the palladium of the liberties of the
Republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and the
arbritrary powers of rulers, and will generally -- even if these are successful
-- enable the people to resist and triumph over them."  {V}{RKBA}
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Chief Justice Marlin T. Phelps, Arizona supreme Court:  "Nothing was further
from the minds of the Framers of the Constitution, than that the supreme Court
should ever make the Supreme Law of the Land."
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Chief Justice Warren Burger:  "Ours is a sick profession.  [A profession marked
by] incompetence, lack of training, misconduct, and bad manners.  Ineptness,
bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over
this country every day."
<HR>
Congressional Record Vol. 90 Sec. 271 (b)(1) p.2243 (1939):  "Under this bill
we are trying our best to eliminate tax returns for some 30,000,000 of our
individual taxpayers by allowing them to use the so-called W-2 form, which
results in the taxpayer not computing his own tax but having his tax computed
by the collector ... This whole thing is for the purpose of removing
complications and difficulties that have arisen by reason of the enactment of
the so-called pay-as-you-go system."
<HR>
Congressman George Hansen:  "If a tactic you try irritates the I.R.S. and its
agents, you can assume it is legal - remember it for future use."
<HR>
Congressman Jerry Voorhis:  "The banks -- commercial banks and the Federal
Reserve -- create all the money of this nation and its people pay interest on
every dollar of that newly created money.  Which means that private banks
exercise unconstitutionally, immorally, and ridiculously the power to tax the
people. For every newly created dollar dilutes to some extent the value of
every other dollar already in circulation."
<HR>
Congressman Wright Patman: "Mr. Eccles [Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board],
how did you get the money to buy those two billion of government securities?";
Eccles: "We created it."  Congressman Patman: "Out of what?"; Eccles: "Out of
the right to issue credit money.", The House Banking and Currency Committee;
September 30, 1941
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Congressman Wright Patman, Chairman, House Banking Committee:  "In the United
States today we have in effect two governments ... We have the duly constituted
Government ... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated
government of the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are
reserved to Congress by the Constitution."
<HR>
Daniel Boorstin `The mysterious Science of the Law':  "In the first century of
American independence, the [Blackstone] Commentaries were not merely an
approach to the study of the law; for most lawyers they constituted all there
was of the law."
<HR>
Daniel Webster, Speech on Hamilton:  "He smote the rock of the national
resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth.  He touched the dead
corpse of public credit, and it sprang upon its feet."
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Daniel Webster:  "God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always
ready to guard and defend it."
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Daniel Webster:  "Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption
of authority.  It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to
guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.  There are men in all
ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern.  They promise to be good
masters, but they mean to be masters."
<HR>
David Veal (Usenet):  "For every action there is an equal, and opposite,
government program"
<HR>
Delegate Sedgwick, during the Massachusetts Convention, rhetorically asking if
an oppressive standing army could prevail [Johnathan Elliot, ed., Debates in
the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,
Vol.2 at 97 (2d ed., 1888)]:  "... if raised, whether they could subdue a
Nation of freemen, who know how to prize liberty, and who have arms in their
hands?"
<HR>
Donald T. Regan"  "We do many things at the federal level that would be
considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector."
<HR>
Dorcas R. Hardy, Commissioner of Social Security:  "There is no law requiring a
person to apply for a Social Security number, and there is no section of title
18, United States Code, making it a crime to not have a social security number."
<HR>
Douglas MacArthur, General, 1957:  "Our government has kept us in a perpetual
state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with
the cry of grave national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil
to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the
exorbitant sums demanded.  Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to
have happened, seem never to have been quite real."
<HR>
Edmund Burke (1729-1797):  "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing."
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Edmund Burke, `Reflections on the Revolution in France':  "Kings will be
tyrants from policy, when subject are rebels from principle."
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Edmund Burke, `Reflections on the Revolution in France':  "The age of chivalry
is gone.  That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded."
<P>
Edmund Burke:  "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to
do nothing."
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Edmund Burke, 1784:
"The people never give up their liberty but under some delusion."
<BR> [Contrast the above with U.S. Senator Joseph Biden's statement:
"Banning guns is an idea whose time has come"
as reported on 18 November, 1993, by the Associated Press.]
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Edward Abbey:  "The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled
police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the
weapon of democracy... If guns are outlawed, only the government will have
guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of
our rulers.  Only the government - and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the
outlaws."
<HR>
Edward Gibbon, `The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire':  "...
the discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny."
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Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary Hero. `Reason, The Only Oracle of Man':
"There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in
religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning supernatural
inspiration or revelation; not considering that all true religion originates
from reason, and can not otherwise be understood, but by the exercise and
improvement of it."
<HR>
Frank Herbert:  "Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they
cease to be governments.  Each government carries the seeds of its own
destruction."
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Frank Herbert:  "Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based
their job security."
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Frank Herbert:  "Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts
and police are effective.  They're a kind of job insurance."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (on Social Security):  "We must not allow this type of
insurance to become a dole through the mingling of insurance and relief.  It is
not charity.  It must be financed by contributions not taxes ... Let us keep
out every element which is actuarily unsound."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt:  "Governments never do anything by accident; if
government does something you can bet it was carefully planned."
<HR>
Fred Rodell:  "In tribal times, there were the medicine men.  In the Middle
Ages, there were the priests.  Today there are the lawyers.  For every age, a
group of bright boys, learned in their trade and jealous of their learning, who
blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves
masters of their fellow men.  For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy,
guarding the tricks of its trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its
own pattern, the civilization of its day." /-P-/ "It is the lawyers who run our
civilization for us - our governments, our business, our private lives."
<HR>
Frederic Bastiat, `The Law':  "Sometimes the law defends plunder and
participates in it.  Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges,
police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the
victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal."
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"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State.  They forget that