Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave. – Andrew Fletcher
If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. – Andrew Fletcher
My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to learn that my Lord could be so forgetful of the elementary facts of nature, and also of mankind, that he believes when the lesser joins the greater, it can remain itself and maintain it – Andrew Fletcher
Let who will make the laws of a nation so long as I am permitted to make her songs. – Andrew Fletcher
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man