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• When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
  -- W. H. Aude...
• The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point.
  Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech....
• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
  -- Justice Louis D. Brandei...
• Marriage. It's a hard term to define, especially for me, I've ducked it like root canal.
  Still there's no denying that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari....
• 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....
• backbone cabal n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s.
  During most of its lifetime, the Cabal (as it was sometimes capitalized) steadfastly denied its own existence...
• Justice is having and doing what is one's own. -- Plato
• An Animal that knows who it is, one that has a sense of his own identity, is a discontented creature, doomed to create new problems for himself for the duration of his stay on this planet.
  Since neither the mouse nor the chip knows what is, he is spared all the vexing problems that follow this discovery....