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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
Author: Trammell Crow
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The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.
Author: John L. Graham
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There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
Author: William Edward Forster
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It is much safer to obey, than to govern.
Author: Thomas à Kempis
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Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay.
Author: Bill Stern
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We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.
Author: Andrew Johnson
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
Author: John Philpot Curran
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Author: Demosthenes
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All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks but seldom changes the way the world works. Lasting historical change comes not through tidal waves but through the irresistible creeping tide.
Author: Richard Nixon
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The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
Author: Carl Von Clausewitz
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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.
Author: Chris Bowkett
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The foundation of justice is good faith.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Author: Otto Herman Kahn
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
Author: George E. Macdonald
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
Author: Claudette Colbert
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
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It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
Author: M. Grundler
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The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
Author: Rose Wilder Lane
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None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.
Author: John Milton
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The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
Author: Julian Simon
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We are as free as and free in exactly the sense that our neuronal processes are free.
Author: Stephen Boydstun
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
Author: William Godwin
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Author: Charles Austin Beard
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. - Gandhi, An Autobiography.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Author: Aristotle
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
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I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
Author: Bill Clinton
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Individuality is freedom lived.
Author: John Dos Passos
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Author: Jimmy Carter
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[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.
Author: Thomas L. Pangle
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It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
Author: Woody Allen
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
Author: William F. Buckley
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From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.
Author: Karl Marx
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power- God, history, fate, nation or humanity.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to attain excellence. To discover what a man truly craves but knows he cannot have we must find the field in which he advocates absolute equality. By this test Communists are frustrated Capitalists.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to preserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change. The tendency to look for all causes outside ourselves persists even when it is clear that our state of being is the product of personal qualities such as ability, character, appearance, health and so on.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith in the future renders us receptive to change.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil!
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
Author: Erik Von Kuehnelt-leddihn
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...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This is expressed in the claim, "All men are created equal," which is something very different from the statement, "All men have equal rights and are equal before the law." Anyone who believes in the genetic uniqueness of every individual thereby believes in the conclusion, "No two individuals are created equal.".
Author: Ernst Mayr
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As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
Author: S. Ohno
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Author: Aesop
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This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at alot.
Author: George W. Bush
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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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