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For the moment, let's leave religion out of this discussion. I will come back to it later.
All Humans(people), by nature, have the same rights; not dependent on when, where, how, or what gender they are born. These Rights supersede all national affiliations and national laws. These are natural laws. They existed before there were governments and will remain after.
First and foremost, All people own themselves.
All people are entitled to the fruits of their own labor.
All associations, transactions, contracts, agreements, sales, etc. of Any kind, for Any reason must be voluntary. (Non-Aggression Principle or NAP - Aggression/Coercion should not be used to force anyone to do, say, or agree to Anything. The ONLY time aggression may be used is in the defense of the life and rights of yourself (or others) from another party initiating aggression.)
Theft of any kind is wrong.
These represent my ETHICAL stance on way human society should be. I understand that this model of
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.”
--Samuel Adams (27 September 1722 - 2 October 1803)
Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748
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"The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, thought this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burdens, to be rid of all regulations. How is it practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights."
--Joseph Story (18 September 1779 - 10 September 1845), SCOTUS,
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (vol. 3, pp. 746-747), 1833
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"...every man has a "property" in his own "person." This nobody has any right to but himself. The "labor" of his body and the "work" of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labor with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state Nature placed it in, it hath by this labor something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men. For this "labor" being the unquestionable property of the laborer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to..."
--John Locke (29 August 1632 - 28 October 1704)
Two Treatises on Government (Of Property), 1689
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“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
--John Locke (29 August 1632 - 28 October 1704)
Two Treatises on Government (Popular Basis of Political Authority
), 1689
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"I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his power, take away everything else."
--John Locke (29 August 1632 - 28 October 1704)
Two Treatises on Government (Force without Right, a State of War), 1689
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"Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see. "
--Naomi Wolf (12 November 1962 - living)
American feminist author and journalist
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
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“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.”
--Stefan Molyneux (24 September 1966 - living)
The Art of The Argument
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“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."
--William Orville Douglas (16 October 1898 - 19 January 1980), SCOTUS
Beauharnais v. Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (dissenting), 1952
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“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”
--William Orville Douglas (16 October 1898 - 19 January 1980), SCOTUS
The Douglas Letters: Selections from the Private Papers of Justice William O. Douglas
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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
--H.L. Mencken (Henry Louis Mencken; 12 September 1880 - 29 January 1956)
American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English
A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1949
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“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”
--Larken Rose (living)
(still seeking original speech/text)
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"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
--Benjamin Franklin(17 January 1706 - 17 April 1790)
Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings
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“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes,”
--Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens; 30 November 1835 - 21 April 1910)
(attributed to; no proof, no source).
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