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<option>A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. | <option>A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. | ||
<br>- '''Alexis de Tocqueville'''</option> | <br>- '''Alexis de Tocqueville'''</option> | ||
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| + | <option>To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding. | ||
| + | <br>- '''Jeff Snyder, Oct 20, 1994'''</option> | ||
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Revision as of 16:54, 19 September 2014
There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
- Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-53 BC)
