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• The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
  -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Pape...
• Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
  -- James Madison, The Federalist Pape...
• We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. -- Alexander Hamilto
• It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood
  if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow....
• Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing - and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
  -- The Best of Will Roge...
• How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which.
  .. 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?...
• We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
  But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best....