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The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.
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It is not fools that I seek to address.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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