“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
