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• Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.
  -- Robert Anson Heinlein, 1949...
• I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
  -- William Henry Harriso...
• The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spiri
  it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking....
• All those who are opposed to the plan I am about to propose will reply by saying "I resign.
• Make no laws whatever concerning speech and, speech will be free
  o soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license...
• Am I experiencing widespread political corruption yet?
• For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the derivation of the motions of the universe's spheres.
  I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most systematic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, who otherwise examined so precisely the most insignificant trifles of this world....
• As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
  -- Beaumarchai...
• I belong to no organized political party -- I am a Democrat. -- Will Roge