Everything used in this book
is from public sources.
The stuff that's available publicly
is far more frightening
than a lot of people realize.

While this book is relatively heavy to lift,
it isn't heavy reading.
It's broken into dozens of short chapters
and is more suited to browsing
than to reading cover-to-cover.

I never hurt nobody but myself
and that's nobody business
but by own.

It rankles me when somebody
tries to force somebody
to do something.

Perhaps the sentiments
contained in the following pages,
are not yet sufficiently fashionable
to procure them general favor;
a long habit of
not thinking a thing wrong,
gives it a superficial appearance
of being right,
and raises at first
a formidable outcry
in defence of custom.
But the tumult soon subsides.