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• Property has its duties as well as its rights. -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Sybil, Book ii, Chap.
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• Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
  -- "M.T. Cicero", in a newspaper letter of 1788 touching the "militia" referred to in the Second Amendment to the Constitution....
• With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Whenever, therefore, the profession of arms becomes a distinct order in the state.
  ...the end of the social compact is defeated... No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state....
• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms!" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Letter to Colonel W. S. Smith, 1787...
• Before buying a piece of property, walk around its perimeter.
• Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
  -- (Thomas) Woodrow Wilso...
• There 's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Ode to Melancholy...
• Rank has its privileges.