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Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.
Author: Richard Mitchell
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Author: Dwight D Eisenhower
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The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Author: Hubert Humphrey
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. - The Friends of Voltaire.
Author: S. G. Tallentyre
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Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.
Author: Anonymous
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For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
Author: James Brady
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Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. - "Usenet posting in talk.politics.guns".
Author: Joseph T. Chew
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Beyond the Horizon, 1942.
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Last words, October 12, 1915.
Author: Edith Cavell
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To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Author: Anonymous
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.
Author: Alexis Carrel
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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.
Author: Hair
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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
Author: William Westmoreland
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.
Author: D. W. Brogan
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I have not yet begun to fight!
Author: John Paul Jones
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Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
Author: Gen. George Pickett
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
Author: William Proxmire
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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Author: Harry S Truman
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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Author: Henry B. Adams
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Author: Isaac Asimov
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.
Author: Tom Bradley
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Author: Paddy Chayevsky
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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
Author: Cissy Farenthold
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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Author: Emma Goldman
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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
Author: Jesse Jackson
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Author: Lady Bird Johnson
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A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.
Author: Dennis Miller
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Author: Thomas Paine
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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
Author: Dan Quayle
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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
Author: Jose Saramago
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Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
Author: William E. Simon
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
Author: Oliver Stone
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
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A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
Author: Felix Morley
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The common good comes before the private good.
Author: Nazi Slogan
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.
Author: C. Curran
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Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".
Author: Thomas Sowell
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No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
Author: Thomas Sowell
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The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help.".
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was activated by unselfish motives, ready to accept the role of martyr or executioner, as the cause demanded.
Author: Arthur Koestler
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When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
Author: Lord Lytton
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So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.
Author: Lord Kitchener
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War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.
Author: Arthur Koestler
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