Thoughts To Ponder

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"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." - Oscar Wilde

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"I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own." - Phillip Caputo

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"As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny": Otto Hermann Kahn - Speech at the University of Wisconsin

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"If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses": Louis Lecoin

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"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason": Sir John Harrington

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"Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief." Burke, Edmund - Excerpt from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) ·

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"Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin

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"Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can't have both. Take your choice. As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day." - Tom Robbins

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"The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances." -Harry Browne

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"If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule of law. Instead, they live under the rule of men corrupted by the law." - Dale Carpenter, Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas