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• Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
  -- Ralph Barton Perry...
• Any government has in the final analysis to be justified by the quality of life which it promotes.
  -- Ralph Barton Perry...
• When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
  -- W. H. Aude...
• There is one right, which man is generally thought to possess, which I am confident he neither does, nor can, posse
  a right to subsistence when his labour will not fairly purchase it....
• The best way to preserve a right is to exercise it, and the right to smoke is a right worth dying for.
• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or thi
  he only right is what is after my own constitutio...
• What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
  -- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law...
• No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return.
  He who remains persevering in danger Is without blame....