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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
– Fletcher Knebel

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We are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them.
– William L. Comer

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The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
– Ayn Rand

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The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.
– Dresden James

*Public* Schools

Zero Tolerance Policies: Are the Schools Becoming Police States? by John W. Whitehead

I'm fine with a private establishment setting whatever rules they like. But a public school is not a private establishment. Every single person there is a government employee and is bound by the threat of force to comply with government regulations. And while I believe that the majority of educators are noble and amazing people, some are not. And the problem is the system is set up so that those few have the power to rob every one of our children of their God given rights in the name of the greater good. Public schools ARE part of the state, no matter what any one wants to believe. "Public" means the state gets final say in what goes on. Curriculum, policy, funding; all decided by bureaucrats who wouldn't be caught dead sending their kids anywhere but private school. The state *IS* guns. So I'd definitely agree with this article; our sense of reality is a little skewed if we're more terrified of a kid with an airsoft gun than of grown men with standard issue 9mms on their hips and the law telling them to use them if anyone protests enough.

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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
– Martin Luther

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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development. – William Wardell