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• The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty.
  -- John Adams (1772)...
• Never trusted telepaths. Never have, never will. -- Garibaldi
• Never king dropped out of the clouds. -- John Selden (1584-1654) -- Powe
• You never know what you can do without until you try. -- Franklin Adam
• This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
  -- Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Aurthur De...
• To understand political power aright ... we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions .
  .. within the bonds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man....
• There is no freedom without the power to defend it.
• Reckeners without their host must recken twice. -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. viii...
• Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have .
  ..a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the character and conduct of their rulers....