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“No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and, in the long run, no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome.”     Robert A. Heinlein,    The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

April 5, 2007

Quote Of The Day

by Doug Mataconis

From America’s Second President, John Adams:

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty

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