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• 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....
• The State: friend to all, enemy of each one.
• If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. Kurt Vonnegut, autho
• If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be .
  .. If we are to gaurd against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed....
• The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence
  which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights....
• If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.
  -- Robertson Davie...
• In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.