Benj Hall

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“Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects....”
― Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams [Volume 1 of 4: 1764-1769]

tags: 1769, civil-rights, tyrrany

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“I think maybe bad things seem worse when people are alone. When they can turn that bad thought over and over in their head, polishing it like a stone, until it shines dark and black. Maybe the key to making things better is being with other people. Little by little, smiles and laughter and hugs can chip away at any dark stone, even if it’s as big as a boulder to start. Then finally, bit by bit, it shrinks until it’s no bigger than a pebble, something that even I could kick down the road.”
― Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember

tags: alone, bad-things, pebble, pebbles, stones

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“Our mother used to say that a hero doesn't always have to slay a dragon to save the day." She swept a lock of hair behind her ear in an honest gesture, then pursed her lips and looked back at him, her gaze endearing. "Sometimes he just walks through the fire alongside you, and that's enough.”
― Kristy Cambron, The Illusionist's Apprentice

tags: hero, heroes, heroism

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“Freedom, is not being tied to anything you fear to lose.”
― D.B.Hall

tags: from-tirade-of-dave

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“Whenever a government produces a method of extorting income for a "public service" it will endeavor to make that service into such a large bureaucracy that not only will it become an excuse for ever larger funding, but that it will be made so large and all encompassing, so as to be beyond removal from within that society. In the case of the American Justice system, the eventuality is that all citizens will be criminalized for the benefit of the system and not for the society for which it purports to protect.”
― D.B.Hall from the book Tirade of Dave

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