"Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

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“Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka.”
“Will you marry me, Quinn O'Connor?”
“You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”
“[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.”

Source : James Hutton (2012). “Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4)”, p.112, tredition
“I certainly didn't have a nanny.”
“I went to Tokyo three years ago. It was a job, though. I did an ad campaign for IBM, so they flew me out there to take pictures of me. It was IBM Global. It went to Australia, France, London, all over the world. But I think the ad campaign was a failure, because of me.”
“I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.”
“If you find something helpful to give you a hand, allow it to assist you, hands down!”

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