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  Robert B. Somerford August 18, 2009 at 8:11pm

  Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.
  
  Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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  Robert B. Somerford August 14, 2009 at 2:22pm

  History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.
  
  Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations, Circa 1774
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  Dave Wallace August 14, 2009 at 7:16am

  Robert,
  Hope you will be attending the Bus Trip to the National Tea Party, 9/12/2009 in Washington DC.
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  Dave Wallace July 24, 2009 at 4:59am

  Robert B., Welcome Aboard! Thanks for deciding to become a member! On behalf of Restore America's Mission, and all of its members, I want to welcome you! Please feel to join in on the discussions at the forums, and post all the blogs that you prefer! Great Picture by the way!