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“In most classrooms, the dutiful, routine discussion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights has as much impact as a lesson on the mean annual rainfall in Jelalabad.”
—Nat Hentoff, “Making This Liberty Stuff Come Alive”
“If history is a reliable guide, the obvious candidates to lead a nonleftist peace movement are businessmen, primarily those who run small and medium-sized concerns. Many of their ancestors, desirous of a free economy and limited government and fearful that global crusades might endanger domestic liberties, took up the anti-interventionist causes of their day.”
—Bill Kauffman, “The New Antiwar Capitalists”
“‘I am not a pacifist resisting war,’ Paul Jacob said shortly after his indictment. ‘I am a free man resisting slavery.’”
—James W. Harris, “Paul Jacob’s Fight Against the Draft”
—February 1987
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