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[Quote No.45230] Need Area: Friends > General
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complaceny to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage." - Sir Alex Fraser Tytler
(1742-1813) Lord Woodhouselee, Scottish jurist, professor and historian.
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[Quote No.45231] Need Area: Friends > General
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Quote from 1782.
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[Quote No.45233] Need Area: Friends > General
"O liberty,
Parent of happiness, celestial born,
When the first man became a living soul;
His sacred genius thou." - Sir Edward Dyer
(1543-1607) English courtier and poet
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[Quote No.45236] Need Area: Friends > General
"In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again." - Edward Gibbon
(1737-1794) English historian and Member of Parliament. Quote from his book, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', 1909.
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[Quote No.45238] Need Area: Friends > General
"Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization [individualistic free will] and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward [collectives and] statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced [forcefully], because they love their servitude [lack of individual freedom and personal responsibility]. To make them love it [using fraud] is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, [media and] newspaper editors and [educators and] schoolteachers." - Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963) Author. Quote from the Forward to his book, 'Brave New World', 1932.
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[Quote No.45239] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Rugged individualism:] My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all... I don't want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality out...
We've had that individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural resource without knowing it, and now it's just about depleted. Everyone's just about out of gumption. And I think it's about time to return to the rebuilding of this American [human] resource - individual worth." - Robert M. Pirsig
(1928 - ) Author
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[Quote No.45240] Need Area: Friends > General
"Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security." - Frank Herbert
(1920-1986), author. Quote from his book, 'Dune', 1965.
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[Quote No.45250] Need Area: Friends > General
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves." - William Channing
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[Quote No.45259] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Live and let live so long as you do not engage in force, coercion, fraud or harm another's person or property:] I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." - Bruce Lee
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[Quote No.45261] Need Area: Friends > General
"Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better." - Edgar Watson Howe
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[Quote No.45271] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism and accepting diversity is vitally important to improving society as often those that break new ground and thereby make the greatest contributions to society are very unusual individuals:] Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one." - E.B. White
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[Quote No.45276] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective [a human perspective]." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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[Quote No.45278] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every man has freedom to to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." - Herbert Spencer
Quote from his book, 'Social Statics', 1851.
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[Quote No.45282] Need Area: Friends > General
"I believe that we [not others] are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime [not blame others]!" - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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[Quote No.45283] Need Area: Friends > General
"As you sew, so shall you reap." - English Proverb
based on the biblical saying: 'For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' (Galatians 6:7)
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[Quote No.45284] Need Area: Friends > General
"For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." - Bible
Galatians 6:7
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[Quote No.45285] Need Area: Friends > General
"For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. [So do unto others as you would have them do unto you.]" - Bible
Galatians 6:7
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[Quote No.45289] Need Area: Friends > General
"Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth [including fraud - deliberate untruth] and violence [force and coercion]." - Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948)
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[Quote No.45299] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The disbursement and decentralisation of power, for example through executive, parliament, judiciary, states down to enforcing individual liberty, is a way to balance and check the potential danger to society and individuals from the corrupting influence of any individual or group with absolute power:] Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely... And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control [because of the irresistable opportunity for safe, easy and extraordinary gains]. History has proven that." - Lord Acton
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[Quote No.45307] Need Area: Friends > General
"When designing governmental institutions we must assume that all men are knaves [power-hungry and self-serving - not benevolent saints], and that the appropriate constraints [restrictions, checks and balances] are built in to ward off knavish behaviour even if knaves are in power." - David Hume
(1711 - 1776) Scottish philosopher
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[Quote No.45309] Need Area: Friends > General
"Ultimately, one can define the modern state sociologically only in terms of the specific means peculiar to it, as to every political association, namely, the use of physical force... a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate [legal] use of physical force within a given territory... the right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to individuals only to the extent to which the state [and the government, politicians, etc] permits it. The state is considered the sole source of the 'right' to use violence." - Max Weber
(1863 - 1920), a German, who was a founding father of Sociology. Quote from his essay 'Politics as a Vocation', 1919.
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[Quote No.45329] Need Area: Friends > General
"Timid [and LIFE-skills deficient] men [and women] prefer the [fatalistic] calm of despotism [others-in-charge] to the tempestuous sea of liberty [and personal responsibility]." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.45330] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not that governments begin in virtue only to end in sin, government begins by protecting some against others and ends up protecting itself against everyone." - Robert LeFevre
(1911-1986) Quote from his book 'The Nature of Man and His Government' published in 1959.
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[Quote No.45331] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government is always power hungry. To this end to a greater or lesser extent it is always trying to control public opinion and stiffle debate through either subtle or overt censorship, ridicule and propaganda, under the 'cover' of 'the public good'. For this to occur the media has only to repeat the government spin without critical forethought, skeptical research and balanced presentation, often defending themselves with the excuse of 'limited resources'. This conspiracy by design or default thereby denies the public the opportunity for informed choice and so their individual liberty and a functioning democracy. The following is an example of this perversion of truth and diversity of opinion which contributed to one of the greatest tragedies in modern history, namely the Second World War:] In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation’s moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end." - Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator. Source: 'Volkischer Beobachter', 23 March 1933.
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[Quote No.45332] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Modern media is both a power for good but also a great danger as it increases the reach and influence of propaganda. For this reason, individual skepticism and independent thought is vital for individual liberty and a functioning democracy:] Hitler’s dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man." - Albert Speer
(1905-1981), Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect and the German Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler's chief architect before becoming Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Source: at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, 1946.
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[Quote No.45333] Need Area: Friends > General
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. ...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda ...Although this science will be diligently studied [in particular by those desiring power], it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated [lest it lose its power to manipulate them for the good of those desiring power]." - Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970) - Bertrand Arthur William Russell - philosopher and educator.
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[Quote No.45337] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system [which enshrines the independence, liberty and rights of states], that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country [and thereby increase innovation, cultural evolution and living standards just as individuals and groups can do in any society dedicated to equal individual liberty]." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice. Source: wrote (in dissent) in 1932.
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[Quote No.45338] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual liberty and personal responsibility:] I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own." - Billie Holiday
(1915-1959) American Jazz Singer
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[Quote No.45339] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual liberty and personal responsibility:] Laws provide against injury from others, but not from ourselves [as the property we choose to harm is owned by ourselves and not another and especially not society as a whole, or else we would be slaves rather than individuals created by our maker and born into this world with free will]." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, who drafted the Declaration of Independence and was the 3rd US President. Quote from his book, 'Notes on Religion'.
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[Quote No.45348] Need Area: Friends > General
"No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind." - Thomas Sowell
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[Quote No.45377] Need Area: Friends > General
"Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself." - Lord Alfred Tennyson
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[Quote No.45378] Need Area: Friends > General
"A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health [and fair distribution of power, responsibility and liberty of individuals and] of government." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.45387] Need Area: Friends > General
"Inconsistency [intellectual, emotional, social, political, etc] is the only thing in which [most women and] men are consistent." - Horatio Smith
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[Quote No.45392] Need Area: Friends > General
"[With power-hungry and self-serving politicians the following is true:] This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." - Will Rogers
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[Quote No.45395] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Utilitarianism should be limited by something even more fundamental and inalienable, namely equal natural rights:] The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number [so long as no-one's equal natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and private property are infringed in the process]." - Francis Hutcheson
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[Quote No.45399] Need Area: Friends > General
"[One of the benefits of living in society and the social contract:] It is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone." - F. A. Hayek
Nobel Prize winning economist, socio-political theorist and author.
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[Quote No.45403] Need Area: Friends > General
"With government controlling more and more of our economy, the fact that crooks have to go where the money is causes more and more of them to turn to government employment. However, there is probably an even stronger reason for individuals to become politicians. That is the power which accompanies political office. Many idealists think they know better than the ordinary person what is good for that person. They consider themselves a cut above the ordinary individual who just isn’t smart enough to know what he or she should do. Idealists seek government power to impose their ideas upon the rest of us. They may be personally honest insofar as not thinking of lining their own pockets with money but have little compunction about bolstering their egos with government power. This attitude explains the environmentalists, the do-gooders, and others whose ego causes them to seek government power to impose their ideas upon those of us who just want to make our way in a free market in open competition with everyone else. They don’t believe in a free market or voluntary actions. They do believe in controlling others by means of government power." - Harry Hoiles
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[Quote No.45404] Need Area: Friends > General
"A free society, by nature, is an individualist society. It leaves people [so long as they do not harm others, including their property, through force or fraud] free to pursue their own interests, through voluntary trade with others, and leaves them responsible for choosing their own course in life. A free society allows, encourages, and even depends on people who can define the values that give their lives meaning, and then pursue these values autonomously. It relies on people who are entrepreneurs in their own lives, who are capable of thinking for themselves, who have a sense of self-ownership, and the drive to make the most of themselves and their opportunities." - David Kelley
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[Quote No.45405] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The following explains why a free market is important to individual happiness:] A dictator may deem the conduct of the consumers rather foolish. Why should they be so crazy about individually fashioned clothes? He may be right from the point of view of his own value judgments. But the trouble is that valuation is [subjective, i.e. -] personal, individual, and arbitrary. The democracy of the [capitalist free] market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator [whether an individual-politician or group-parliament] has the power to force them to submit to his value judgments." - Ludwig von Mises
Famous Austrian economist and political theorist. Quote from his book, 'Human Action', 1949.
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[Quote No.45406] Need Area: Friends > General
"The state - or, to make matters more concrete, the government - consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting 'A' to satisfy 'B'. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advanced auction on stolen goods." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.45407] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians and those in power should remember the following:] The most drastic deprivation which any person can suffer is that of the freedom to utilize and enjoy the faculties which nature has given him and which his will and desire have developed. Keep a man from exercising his mind, his body, his faculties in the pursuit of his own wishes and delights, keep him from enjoying the fruits of his efforts - and you have done everything evil to him that you can. The greatest desire of each person, in short, is to be free to get the most he can out of life. There is no other way objectively to define social goals than to call them the sum of the those individual goals which can be harmonized in society." - Slyvestro Petro
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[Quote No.45436] Need Area: Friends > General
"Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours." - Phillips Brooks
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[Quote No.45461] Need Area: Friends > General
"...In just a few days, Congress will solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. They should read Article 1 Section 8 and the Bill of Rights before taking such a serious oath. Most legislation violates key provisions of the Constitution in very basic ways, and if members can’t bring themselves to say 'no' in the face of pressure from the special interests, they have broken trust with their constituents and violated their oath. Congress does not exist to serve the special interests. It exists to protect [the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and] the rule of law... Congress should resolve to respect personal liberty and free markets. Learn more about the free market and how it regulates commerce and produces greater prosperity ever than any legislation or regulation.
Understand that economic freedom is freedom. Resolve not to get in the way of voluntary contracts between consenting adults. Stop bailing out failed yet politically connected companies and industries. Stop forcing people to engage in commerce when they don’t want to, and stop prohibiting them from buying and selling when they want to. Stop trying to legislate your ideas of fairness. Protect property rights. Protect the individual. That is enough." - Ron Paul
U.S. Congressman, (Republican) Texas. Quoted December, 2012. [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-31/ron-paul-congress-stop-legislating-your-ideas-fairness-protect-property-rights-prote ]
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[Quote No.45465] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property:] The individual is an autonomous being. [To those that believe in the pre-eminence of freedom, regardless of any other ideology and philosophy to the contrary] His [or her] life belongs to him [or her, not to his or her parents, not to his or her employers], not to society, his [or her] neighbors, the needy, an imagined [or real] God, or the state. He [or she] is not born [a slave] owing anything to anyone. He [or she] owns his [or her body and therefore his or her] life free and clear. [He or she is born with a natural intellectual potential capacity and therefore a natural born right - an inalienable right - to make his or her own choices for himself or herself, or in other words, to have freedom, which means to be free from another's force or fraud, and then therefore to be responsible for the consequences, both good and bad. He or she can choose for himself or herself to help others but, regardless of the sometimes useful concepts of a social contract, democracy, majority (or mob) rule or utilitarianism, no individual or group can choose for another and then force them to do likewise. To honor each individual's inalienable right to freedom (from their ownership of their own body) they must choose for themselves, particularly after hearing the arguments of all sides, what to do with their bodies, life and, therefore by extension what their body created or freely exchanged, gifted or inherited, that is their private property, including their financial assets.]" - Harry Binswanger
An American philosopher and writer. He is an Objectivist and was a long-time associate of Ayn Rand, working with her on The Ayn Rand Lexicon.
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[Quote No.45468] Need Area: Friends > General
"[It is not sensible to be envious of others because...] If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart!" - Socrates
Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.45485] Need Area: Friends > General
"A Libertarian’s New Year’s Resolutions:
-- 1. I resolve to [advocate and] sell liberty by appealing to the self-interest of each prospect, rather than preaching to people and expecting them to suddenly adopt my ideas of right and wrong.
-- 2. I resolve to keep from being drawn into arguments or debates. My purpose is to inspire people to want liberty — not to prove that they’re wrong.
-- 3. I resolve to listen when people tell me of their wants and needs, so I can help them see how a free society will satisfy those needs.
-- 4. I resolve to identify myself, when appropriate, with the social goals someone may seek — a cleaner environment, more help for the poor, a less divisive society — and try to show him that those goals can never be achieved by government, but will be well served in a free society.
-- 5. I resolve to be compassionate and respectful of the beliefs and needs that lead people to seek government help. I don’t have to approve of their subsidies or policies — but if I don’t acknowledge their needs, I have no hope of helping them find a better way to solve their problems.
-- 6. No matter what the issue, I resolve to keep returning to the central point: how much better off the individual will be in a free society.
-- 7. I resolve to acknowledge my good fortune in having been born an American. Any plan for improvement must begin with a recognition of the good things we have. To speak only of America’s defects will make me a tiresome crank.
-- 8. I resolve to focus on the ways America could be so much better with a very small government — not to dwell on all the wrongs that exist today.
-- 9. I resolve to cleanse myself of hate, resentment, and bitterness. Such things steal time and attention from the work that must be done.
-- 10. I resolve to speak, dress, and act in a respectable manner. I may be the first Libertarian someone has encountered, and it’s important that he get a good first impression. No one will hear the message if the messenger is unattractive.
-- 11. I resolve to remind myself that someone’s ‘stupid’ opinion may be an opinion I once held. If I can grow, why can’t I help him grow?
-- 12. I resolve not to raise my voice in any discussion. In a shouting match, no one wins, no one changes his mind, and no one will be inspired to join our quest for a free society.
-- 13. I resolve not to adopt the tactics of Republicans and Democrats. They use character assassination, evasions, and intimidation because they have no real benefits to offer Americans. We, on the other hand, are offering to set people free — and so we can win simply by focusing on the better life our proposals will bring.
-- 14. I resolve to be civil to my opponents, and treat them with respect. However anyone chooses to treat me, it’s important that I be a better person than my enemies." - Harry Browne
1996 and 2000 Libertarian Party Nominee for US President. Written in 1998.
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[Quote No.45486] Need Area: Friends > General
"...I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason..." - Cato
Pen-name used by John Trenchard (1662-1723) and Thomas Gordon (169?-1750).
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"Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual...[Individualism and individual freedom are contrary to the ideals, goals and methods of Socialism:] " - Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844 - 1900)
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"Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone." - John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848) 6th US President
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"[The right to bear arms and own private weapons for sport, hunting and self-defence:] The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty." - Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator. Source: 'Hitler's Table Talks 1941-1944', Edited by H.R. Trevor-Roper (London: Widenfeld and Nicolson, 1953), pp. 425-426.
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