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• A free people always has the right to dismiss its rulers, whom it regards as its servants, at any time.
  -- Harry V. Jaffa...
• For the rule of the wise over the less wise to be advantageous .
  .. it must come about by a process of consent. And the requirement of consent can be understood only in the light of, and by recognition of, natural equality....
• The problem of civil society is twofold: how to identify and select wise rule
  and how to assure that their wisdom will be used for the benefit of the ruled- or of the common good as distinct from their private good....
• There is no difference between man and man, as there is between man and beast or between man and God, that makes one by nature the ruler of another.
  This does not mean that there are not wide differences among men, or that it is not often to the advantage of some to be ruled by others....
• Those whom computers must destroy, they first drive mad.
• To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be! -- Emily Dickinson (on hacking?)
• Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best serva
  but not always best subjects. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. (Maxim 294)