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To: marktwain

I’m not sure, but i think he’s the one from whom I got the phrase, “an armed society is a polite society”.


31 posted on 08/25/2016 7:07:36 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Mr. Douglas
an armed society is a polite society”.

That was Robert A. Heinlein in the novel 1948 novel Beyond This Horizion

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38 posted on 08/25/2016 7:35:54 AM PDT by alfa6
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To: Mr. Douglas
I’m not sure, but i think he’s the one from whom I got the phrase, “an armed society is a polite society”.

I would e very surprised if Robert Heinlein was NOT the originator of that quote.

44 posted on 08/25/2016 9:07:10 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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