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• Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom.
  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves....
• We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Prior's Life of Burke (1790)...
• Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 260...
• Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
• They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak.
  . . . . . . They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three....
• Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are!
  From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains....
• Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. BRANDEIS