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• Most people seem to think that trampling individual rights is OK if it is "for the good of society as a whole.
  However, society is but a large number of individuals, and how can harming the individual parts better the whole?...
• To disarm the people - that was the best and most effective way to enslave them .
  ... -- George Mason ( Framer of the Declaration of Rights, Virginia, 1776, -- which became the basis for the U....
• In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militia
  while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms....
• We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal
  hat they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Righ...
• Article the Third: Where a crime of the kidneys has been committed, the accused should enjoy the right to a speedy diaper change.
  Public announcements and guided tours of the aforementioned are not necessary....
• The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document.
  The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet....
• The abortion rights and gun control debates are twin aspects of a deeper question --- does an individual ever have the right to make decisions that are literally life-or-death?
  And if not the individual, who does? -- Eric S. Raymond...
• You who've lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God
  a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim that rights are a gift of society, to be broken at its arbitrary whim -- the source of man's rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity....
• The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning