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• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
  -- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Governme...
• The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous and irresistable_.
  Who are the militia? _are they not ourselves_. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms _each man against his own bosom_....
• The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence
  which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights....
• There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and his family.
  But he can't make a living for them AND the government, too, the way his government is living....
• The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty deed recorded, and the book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title page.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831...
• For though his body 's under hatches, His soul has gone aloft.
  -- Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) -- Tom Bowling...
• The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself
  he rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his....
• It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong
  he may still properly have other concerns to engage him...
• Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
  -- Bernard Baruch...