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• War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince
  and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted....
• Superstition is a religion of feeble minds. -- Edmund Burke
• As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on Christian religion.
  .. -- Joel Barlow (1754-1812) -- Treaty with Tripoli (signed 1797)...
• The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech at County Meeting of Bucks, 1784...
• I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 136...
• 0414 Do you own an up-to-date copy of any operating system manual?
  0415 ... *every* operating system manual? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
• A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage
  people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion....
• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society
  and any departure from it, under any circumstance, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all....
• There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish.
  To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. -- Edmund Burke...