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• The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville...
• Men will never establish any equality with which they can be contented.
  Whatever efforts a people may make, they will never succeed in reducing all the conditions of society to a perfect level....
• The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville...
• Americans are so enamoured of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville...
• Quote #312 There exists in the human heart a depraved taste for equality
  which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom....
• Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual discretion.
  ..in private self-defense. -- John Adam...
• What good is it to me, after all, if there is an authority always busy to see to the tranquil enjoyment of my pleasures and going ahead to brush all dangers away from my path without giving me even the trouble to think about i
  if that authority, which protects me from the smallest thorns on my journey, is also the absolute master of my liberty and of my life?...
• C++ offers even more flexible control over the visibility of member objects and member functions.
  Specifically, members may be placed in the public, private, or protected parts of a class....