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[Quote No.62850] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Libertarianism:] For what democracy needs most of all...beyond everything is a party of liberty." - H.L. Mencken
'Notes on Democracy', 1926.
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[Quote No.62867] Need Area: Friends > General
"Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion." - Sam Ervin, Jr.
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[Quote No.62870] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom and the necessity of political separation of church and state:] It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so." - Robert A. Heinlein
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[Quote No.62871] Need Area: Friends > General
"The highest form of vanity is love of fame." - George Santayana
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[Quote No.62876] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics: reciprocity - 'equality' - 'What goes around, comes around', 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you'd like to be treated, as how you behave is 'contagious' - 'mirrored':] As you sow so will you reap." - Cicero
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[Quote No.62897] Need Area: Friends > General
"One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy [and individual freedom], perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests.... The operating maxim of the democratic [and individual freedom] ideology is, 'Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.'" - Sidney Hook
(1902-1989) American Marxist philosopher. Source: 'Political Power and Personal Freedom', 1959.
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[Quote No.62898] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Lack of individual informed free choice through fraud and] Force (is) the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President.
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[Quote No.62904] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts: Politicians know well that...] A state of war...serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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[Quote No.62905] Need Area: Friends > General
"The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained [by a Bill of Rights] majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative." - Henry Grady Weaver
(1889-1949), as quoted in his book, 'The Mainspring of Human Progress', 1947.
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[Quote No.62907] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:]
If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." - Alan K. Simpson
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[Quote No.62908] Need Area: Friends > General
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm S. Forbes
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[Quote No.62914] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government rather than large, unlimited as in ever more 'paternalistic-interventionist' government, because 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely':] Mankind soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess, or may assume. The public money and public liberty...will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth and dominion to those who hold them; distinguished, too, by this tempting circumstance, that they are the instrument, as well as the object of acquisition. With money we will get men, said Caesar, and with men we will get money. Nor should our assembly be deluded by the integrity of their own purposes, and conclude that these unlimited powers will never be abused, because themselves are not disposed to abuse them. They should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when a corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price." - Thomas Jefferson
From his 'Notes on Virginia' published 1784.
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[Quote No.62926] Need Area: Friends > General
"Politics must be the battle of the principles...
the principle[s] of liberty [and truth] against the principle[s] of force [and fraud]." - Auberon Herbert
(1838-1906) English author
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[Quote No.62927] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics: Life and] Politics must be the battle of the principles... the principle[s] of liberty [and truth] against the principle[s] of force [and fraud]." - Auberon Herbert
(1838-1906) English author
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[Quote No.62928] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] No man has a natural right to commit aggression [force - including the threat of force known as coercion - or fraud - as it is aggressive to deny individual free informed choice] on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." - Thomas Jefferson
American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Quote from his letter to Francis Gilmer, (1816).
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[Quote No.62940] Need Area: Friends > General
"All men are created equally free and independent and have certain inherent and natural rights ... , among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." - George Mason
American planter and politician who participated in the American Revolution and the Constitutional Convention. He was especially influential as the principal author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which was echoed in the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the United States Bill of Rights (1789). [This quote is from Section 1 of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 - refer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Declaration_of_Rights ]
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[Quote No.62943] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it!" - Abraham Maslow
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[Quote No.62944] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government:] By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable." - Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974. Source: 'The Road to Serfdom'.
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[Quote No.62956] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics: Freedom and truth are better than force and fraud:] Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them." - Sir Thomas Browne
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[Quote No.62960] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Citizens and voters should always remember...] For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise." - Harry Browne
(1933-2006) American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst. Libertarian candidate for US President 1996 and 2000.
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[Quote No.62965] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; following the 'golden rule of treating others as you'd like to be treated; honour and self-esteem; each person's equal, unalienable birth-right to freedom from force and fraud:] Courtesy...is the desire of acting in a way that should please men [and women] and refraining from that which should displease them." - Benedict Spinoza
(1632 - 1677) Dutch - Jewish philosopher
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[Quote No.62975] Need Area: Friends > General
"The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government." - Milton Friedman
(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, 'ultimate guru of the free-market system'. Source: 'Capitalism and Freedom'.
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[Quote No.62983] Need Area: Friends > General
"Collectivism [Communism and Socialism as opposed to free-market capitalist individualism] holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to 'society,' to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force -- and statism has always been the political corollary of collectivism." - Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
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[Quote No.63001] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and martial arts:] Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force [if all else fails]. Whenever you give up that [ultimate use of] force, you are ruined....O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people!" - Patrick Henry
(1736-1799) US Founding Father
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[Quote No.63002] Need Area: Friends > General
"Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws. He is obliged, consequently, to contribute his share to the expense of this protection; and to give his personal service, or an equivalent, when necessary. But no part of the property of any individual can, with justice, be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his own consent, or that of the representative body of the people. In fine, the people of this commonwealth are not controllable by any other laws than those to which their constitutional representative body have given their consent." - John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: Thoughts on Government, 1776.
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[Quote No.63027] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government:] The United States was supposed to have a limited government because the founders knew government power attracts demagogues and despots as surely as horse manure attracts horseflies." - Rick Gaber
Libertarian writer
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[Quote No.63053] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics, the social contract, politics, entitlements and Human rights:] If not for the corrupting lure of something for nothing, people would long ago have rejected the idea that wishes imply rights.
" - Gary M. Galles
'Wanting Something Doesn't Make It a Human Right', 2017.
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[Quote No.63141] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." - Omar Bradley
Address on Armistice Day, 1948.
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[Quote No.63162] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." - Henry James
(1843-1916), writer
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[Quote No.63204] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother's keeper [and thereby empowered to interfere in his choices in life, even though they hurt no-one]." - Everett Dean Martin
(1880-1941) Source: Liberty, 1930.
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[Quote No.63211] Need Area: Friends > General
"The great virtue of free enterprise [truly free market capitalism] is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise." - Milton Friedman
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[Quote No.63212] Need Area: Friends > General
"Public Choice theory, if nothing else, has taught economists to consider the state as it is, not as it should be in a dream world: the state is a potential tyrant, not a benevolent God." - Pierre Lemieux
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[Quote No.63216] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts:] The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it." - George Marshall
(1880-1959), US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate.
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[Quote No.63220] Need Area: Friends > General
"[If you are envious or jealous remember...] Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
" - Jordan Peterson
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[Quote No.63229] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others." - Henry Taylor
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[Quote No.63234] Need Area: Friends > General
"[A Bill of Rights is necessary to protect the rights of each, especially minorities, from the whims of majorities:] The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities." - Lord Acton
(1834-1902), Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton), historian.
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[Quote No.63261] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence [the denial of free, informed choice through force and/or fraud]." - Ron Paul
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[Quote No.63268] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men [governments, etc], but a [birth-] right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature." - Benjamin Franklin
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[Quote No.63273] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom, individualism and authenticity:] As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others." - Robert H. Schuller
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[Quote No.63279] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Philanthropy and charity:] What stymies the people in poor countries, as a rule, is not lack of aid. It is forms of government, often corrupt and tyrannical, that do not allow people to exercise free choice under fair law." - Claudia Rosett
Wall Street Journal [2005]
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[Quote No.63280] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The socio-economic political systems -] Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist seeing the rich man and his fine home says, 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist seeing the same thing says, 'All men should have as much.'" - Phelps Adams
(1903-1991) Chief Washington correspondent for The New York Sun (1928-50), adminstrative vice president for United States Steel (1950-67).
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[Quote No.63281] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom versus government power:] Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) Source: Journal, 1839.
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[Quote No.63288] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] It is not always in the soul's power not to feel a temptation. But it is always in its power not to consent to it. [Do not focus any attention on it. Distract your attention elsewhere.]
" - Francis de Sales
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[Quote No.63292] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politically...] Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." - Harriet Rubin
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[Quote No.63302] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Political vigilance is necessary as 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely':] A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel
(1903-1987)
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[Quote No.63316] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] War does not determine who is right, only who is left." - Saying
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[Quote No.63332] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics: 'be the change you wish to see':] You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person." - Scott Sorrell
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[Quote No.63334] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess." - Louis Nizer
(1902-1994), lawyer
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[Quote No.63360] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Imagination enables us to comprehend the world of others - thus forming the basis for empathy, compassion, and kindness.
" - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.63362] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] The great instrument of moral good is the imagination [because the imagination allows a person to empathise with another]." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Famous poet
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