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• To be free of bondage or restraint, to live under a government based on the consent of the citize
  hese are basic among all freedoms, and this is the reason why a democracy is from every possible humane point of view the best form of government....
• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms.
  [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible....
• It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his natio
  hat the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole....
• Watching television, you'd think we lived at bay, surrounded on all sides by human-seeking germs.
  We are instructed to spray disinfectant everywhere, into the air of our bedrooms and kitchens and with special energy into bathrooms....
• But, sir, the people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation, without being driven to an appeal of arms.
  An act of usurpation is not obligatory; it is not law...
• Every man is apt to form his notions of things difficult to be apprehended, or less familiar, from their analogy to things which are more familiar.
  Thus, if a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subjec...
• The primary aim of all government regulation of economic life of the community should be, not to supplant the system of private economic enterprise, but to make it work.
  -- Carl Becke...
• Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life
  There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake-- It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife"-- "Why, so it is, father--whose wife shall I take?...
• Still one more thing, fellow citizens: a wise and frugal governme
  which shall refrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned....