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• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
  -- John E.E. Dalberg, Lord Acton (1834-1902), -- "The History of Freedom in Antiquity...
• Architecture is the printing press of all ages, and gives a history of the state in which it was conducted.
  -- Lady Morga...
• The basis of a democratic state is liberty. -- Aristotle
• State: A state is a situation which can be recognized if it occurs again.
• Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself.
  It is a --it is different from the other 49 states....
• You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
  Lord Acton (1834-1902)...
• Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil
  in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries *by a government*, which we might expect in a country *without government*, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer....