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“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.”     G.K. Chesterton

April 13, 2008

Quote Of The Day: Founding Father Birthday Edition

by Doug Mataconis

“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

— Thomas Jefferson, born April 13, 1743


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