"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180)

54, male, former 'Leftist' who saw the light :-> I work in the construction industry and practice what I preach: Avail thyself of thy Second Amendment rights!

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home.--John Stuart Mill

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice--is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
John Stuart Mill, "The Contest in America," pp. 208-09, in John Stuart Mill, Dissertations and Discussions

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. --Thomas Paine

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato

a hardcore conservative. You believe in personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American values and a strong national defense. Believe the role of government should be to provide people the freedom necessary to pursue their own goals.

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