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The Benefits of Substitutionary Phrases

Dysphemism: The substitution of a disagreeable, offensive, or disparaging word or expression for an agreeable or inoffensive one. Euphemism: The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive word or expression for one that is harsh, indelicate,…

by Syme Antipathic
Posted on October 31, 2021March 5, 2022

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1812-1845
(Youngest Justice [age 32] ever appointed to Supreme Court)

“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. . . . There is certainly no small danger, that indifference [to the right to keep and bear arms] may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.”

Liberty Letters, 1833