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• The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*
  and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage....
• War destroys mem, but luxury mankind At once corrupts the body and the mind. -- Crow
• It is because the people are civilized, that they are with safety armed. -- Joel Barlow
• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all eve
  the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature....
• Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
• Envy is a pain of mind that successful men cause their neighbors.
• The following appeared in a newspaper article published in the country of Corpora.
  "Twenty years ago, one half of all citizens in Corpora met the standards for adequate physical fitness as then defined by the national advisory board on physical fitness....
• The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), 1951...
• The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
  For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last....