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the State lives at the expense of everyone."  --Frederic Bastiat
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"Often the masses are plundered and do not know it."  --Frederic Bastiat
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"They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep.
Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to
the rest of us.  And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the
legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority."
--Frederic Bastiat
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"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have
made laws.  On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property
existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
--Frederic Bastiat
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"See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them,
and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.  See if the law
benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen
himself cannot do without committing a crime."  --Frederic Bastiat
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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in
society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system
that authiorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it".  --Frederic Bastiat,
ECONOMIC SOPHISMS, from chapter titled THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PLUNDER.
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Frederick Douglass (1857):  "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the
endurance of those whom they oppress."
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G. K. Chesterton:  "'My country right or wrong' is like saying, 'My mother
drunk or sober.'"
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Gandhi:  "You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help,
but that is no excuse, you must still act."
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Gary Larson (Far Side):  "My baby's left my lily pad, my legs were both
deep-fried.  I eat flies all day and when I'm gone, they'll stick me in
formaldehyde...  Oh, I got the greeeeeens, I got the greens real baaaaaad...."
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Gazette of the United States, 14 October 1789:  "The right of the people to
keep and bear arms has been recognized by the General Government; but the best
security of that right after all is, the military spirit, that taste for
martial exercises, which has always distinguished the free citizens of these
states...  Such men form the best barrier to the liberties of America."
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George Bancroft (1845):  "... the Union, which was constituted by consent, must
be preserved by love."
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George Bernard Shaw:  "Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
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George Bush, Made to Robert Sherman of American Atheist Press at the Chicago
airport, August 27 1988.  The exchange appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera on
Monday February 27, 1989.  It can also be found in "Free Enquiry" magazine,
Fall 1988 issue, Volume 8, Number 4, page 16.:  "I don't know that atheists
should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots.  This is
one nation under God."
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George Stark, General:  "LIVE FREE OR DIE; DEATH IS NOT THE WORST OF EVILS."
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George Washington and John Adams, Diplomatic message to Malta:  "The United
States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion."
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George Washington, Farewell Address:  "Guard against the impostures of
pretended patriotism."
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George Washington, Farewell Address:  "Occupants of public offices love power
and are prone to abuse it."
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George Washington, General, Continental Army (Ret.):  "Firearms are second only
to the Constitution in importance; they are the people's liberty's teeth."
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George Washington, speech of 7 January 1790 in the Boston Independent
Chronicle, 14 January 1790:  "A free people ought... to be armed..."
<BR> [Contrast the above with U.S. Representative Major Owens's statement:
"My bill ... establishes a 6-month grace period for the turning in of all
handguns" as recorded in the Congressional Record of 10 November, 1993.]
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George Washington:  "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is
force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
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George Washington:  "If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it
shall surely be like death to our body politic.  This country will crash."
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George Washington:  "The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere
restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor with all that's
good ..."
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George Washington, in his Farewell Address (17 September, 1796; from Commager's
"Documents of American History", p. 174; cited in the February, 1996, Freeman):
"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending
our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as
possible.  So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled
with perfect good faith.  Here let us stop.  ...  It is our true policy to
steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, so
far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it."
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Goethe: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it."
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Grover Cleveland:  "At times like the present, when the evils of unsound
finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the
misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may
even find profit from the fluctuations of values, but the wage earner - the
first to be injured by a depreciated currency - is practically defenseless."
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H.L. Mencken:  "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they
want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
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H.L. Mencken:  "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
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H.L. Mencken:  "The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under
democracy.  His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful."
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Harlon Carter: "Those who will not fight for their rights deserve to lose them."
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Harlon Carter:  "`Compromise' is the art of giving your opponent that which he
is not powerful enough to take."
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Harold Berman, Harvard law professor:  "[The] whole culture seems to be facing
the possibility of a kind of nervous breakdown ... One major symptom of this
threatened breakdown is the massive loss in the confidence in law - not only on
the part of law-consumers but also on the part of lawmakers and distributors."
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Henry Clay:  "The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the
generation that then existed, but for posterity -- unlimited, undefined,
endless, perpetual posterity."
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Henry David Thoreau:  "I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have
yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my
seniors."
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Henry David Thoreau:  "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this
year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such
is possible."
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Henry David Thoreau:  "In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the
true place for a just man is also the prison."
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Henry Ford:  "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable
reason why so few engage in it."
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Henry Kissinger:  "It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter
of what is perceived to be true."
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Henry Spencer:  "Life is so much more meaningful if you take the time to hunt
down and strangle twits who post blather to inappropriate newsgroups."
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Hermann Goering, 1936:  "Naturally the common people don't want war ... but
after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always
a simple matter to drag the people along ... All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger.  It works the same in any country."
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Hon. Larry Moritz, Municipal Judge, Spearville Kansas (1981):  "If Congress
won't keep its part of the Constitutional bargain and coin money of gold and
silver like Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5 commands, there's no way my court
can require anyone to pay fines.  I'm not here to protect certain people's
investments, I'm here to carry out the mandate of the U.S. and the Kansas
Constitutions."
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Horace Greeley:  "While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal
the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system
of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system
of chattel slavery."
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Horace Greely:  "The way to resume [specie payments] is to resume."
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IRS Strategic Plan, (May 1984):  "A ``decay in the social contract'' is
detectable; there is a growing feeling, particularly among middle-income
taxpayers, that they are not getting back, from society and government, their
money's worth for taxes paid.  The tendency is for taxpayers to try to take
more control of their finances ..."
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Irwin Schiff:  "If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must
give them less to spend."
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J.F.C. Fuller:  "Long before the outbreak of the war their brains had become
ossified, and even the terrible circumstances of this battle could not
penetrate the historic concrete in which they were encased."
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James A. Kidney, `U.S. News & World Report':  "Despite growing unease among the
public and legal experts, judges ... are reaching into areas once considered
the exclusive preserve of legislators, public administrators and the family."
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James Earl Jones:  "The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry
guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will
win and the decent people will loose."
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James Madison, 1788:  "As the courts are generally the last in making the
decision [on laws], it results to them, by refusing or not refusing to execute
a law, to stamp it with its final character.  This makes the Judiciary dept
paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended, and can never
be proper."
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James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, addressed to the General Assembly
of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1785:  "What influence, in fact, have
ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been
seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many
instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no
instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people."
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James Madison, Federalist Paper 10:  "Hence it is that such democracies have
ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found
incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in
general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their
deaths."  {V}{FF}
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James Madison, Federalist Paper 44:  "The sober people of America are weary of
the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils.  They have seen
with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences,
in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising
and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less
informed part of the community.  They have seen, too, that one legislative
interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every
subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the
preceding." {V}{FF}
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James Madison, Federalist Paper 46:  "Besides the advantage of being armed,
which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the
existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by
which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the
enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government
of any form can admit of.  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."
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James Madison, Federalist Paper 46:  "The Constitution preserves the advantage
of being armed...."
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James Madison, Federalist Paper 46:  "The adversaries of the Constitution seem
to have lost sight of the people altogether in their reasonings on this
subject; ...  These gentlemen must here be reminded of their error.  They must
be told that the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found,
resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the
comparative ambition or address of the different governments, whether either,
or which of them, will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the
expense of the other." {V}{FF}
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James Madison, Federalist Paper 62:  "It will be of little avail to the people,
that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous
that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if
they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such