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• It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
  -- Richard Bentley (1662-1742) -- Monk's Life of Bentley, Page 90...
• There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
  -- Montesquieu, 1742...
• Richard, in being so fierce toward my vampire, you were doing what you wanted to do, even though you thought it was going to hurt somebody else.
  He even told you he'd be hurt if..." "He was going to suck my blood!...
• You who've lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God
  a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim that rights are a gift of society, to be broken at its arbitrary whim -- the source of man's rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity....
• Such is the popularity of the president that the people will support him in whatever he will do or will not do, without appealing to their own reason or to anything but their feelings toward him.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)...
• The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals.
  .. It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of....
• To disarm the people - that was the best and most effective way to enslave them .
  ... -- George Mason ( Framer of the Declaration of Rights, Virginia, 1776, -- which became the basis for the U....
• Perlsweig's Second Law: Whatever goes around, comes around.
• You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
  A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with alot of other things, so that he has difficulty in laying his hands upon it....