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  George Elio...
• By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia'
  he 'security' of the nation, and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms', our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy....
• In my view, God educates us through our deceptions and mistakes, in order to make us understand at last that we ought to believe only in Him, and not in man.
• Methusalem might be half an hour in telling what o'clock it wa
  but as for us postdiluvians, we ought to do everything in haste...
• War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince
  and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted....
• I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Letter to Matthew Smith...
• Our patience will achieve more than our force. -- Edmund Burke
• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.
  ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit....
• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.
  ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit....