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The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

— A. E. van Vogt

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Give me a title and we'll start from there.

You really don't understand. We don't worry about individuals.

The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)

Religious habits had in their texture a conservatism unmatched by any other human institution.

The Book of Ptath (1947)

He had a sense of having been saved from the necessity of making a decision rather than of having made one.

And, even more important, the forces that would normally try to enslave them are restrained by the conviction that it is dangerous to press people too far. And so a great balance has been struck between those who govern and those who are governed.

The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)

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