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2012 December 28
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"To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best,
night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the
hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." |
"What is possible for me is possible for you." |
"Either you think -- or else others have to
think for you and take power from you,
pervert and discipline your natural tastes,
civilize and sterilize you." |
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2012 December 27
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"An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having
and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error
may eventually find its foundations insecure." |
"Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts." |
"I know of but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." |
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2012 December 26
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"Laissez-nous faire, laissez-nous passer. Le monde va de lui meme."
"(Let us do, leave us alone. The world runs by itself.)" |
"Freedom all solace to man gives:
He lives at ease that freely lives." |
"The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. It is a process." |
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2012 December 25
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"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device
to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie." |
"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves." |
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty." |
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2012 December 24
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"Since independence in the fourteenth century, the Swiss have been required to keep and bear arms, and since 1515, have had a policy of armed neutrality. Its form of government is similar to the one set up by our Founders -- a weak central government exercising few, defined powers having to do mostly with external affairs and limited authority over internal matters at the canton (state) and local levels." |
"Those who have sought the most in gun control have sought the least in the punishment of criminals." |
"In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the eighteenth century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis." |
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