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"[Small, limited government versus large, all-powerful and interfering government:] They: The makers of the Constitution: conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." - Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice Source: 1928.
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"[Envy and jealousy:] One of the marks of [happy] excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential." - Brian Tracy
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"[Small, limited government versus large, interventionist, power-hungry, statist government:] Progressives understand that their program for a government-centered society becomes more plausible the more people believe that work -- individual striving -- is unavailing. Government grows as fatalism grows, and fatalism grows as progressivism inculcates in people the demoralizing -- make that de-moralizing -- belief that they are [self-helpless] victims of circumstances." - George Will
(1941 - ), American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author. Source: Purdue Has the President America Needs, Jun. 15, 2016.
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"[Morality and ethics:] There is little satisfaction from doing good if individuals are mandated to do the right thing. Character and responsibility are built when people voluntarily choose right over wrong, not when they are forced to do so." - Mark Skousen
Liberty Magazine [2001]
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"[Morality and ethics: those, enamored with large, interventionist, statist governments, who advocate greater power to government to enable it to force changes beyond providing an environment free from force and fraud should be reminded that wise people have learned, from history and individual experience, that 'Good ends do not justify any means', especially the demeaning of the individual and their freedom and personal responsibility:] We ask that government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within the confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: ... an end to the power of financial interest. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand ... the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our system of public education.... We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents.... The government must undertake the improvement of public health -- by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor -- by the greatest possible support for all groups concerned with the physical education of youth. [W]e combat the ... materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of The Common Good Before the Individual Good." - National Socialist Party of Germany (NAZI)
These were planks of the National Socialist Party of Germany (NAZI), adopted in Munich, Germany, on February 24, 1920.
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"[Ethics and morality:] Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.
" - Simone de Beauvoir
(1908 - 1986), Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist.
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"[Statism - whether Left in Communism or Right in Fascism - is when individual freedom and personal responsibility is replaced by bureaucratic authoritarianism and over-reaching hubris:] National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order." - Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator. Source: Adolph Hitler to Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction, pg. 186.
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"[Beware of jealousy:] The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor." - Socrates
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"Social Contract Theory:
Social contract theory says that people live together in society in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behavior. Some people believe that if we live according to a social contract, we can live morally by our own choice and not because a divine being requires it.
Over the centuries, philosophers as far back as Socrates have tried to describe the ideal social contract, and to explain how existing social contracts have evolved. Philosopher Stuart Rachels suggests that morality is the set of rules governing behavior that rational people accept, on the condition that others accept them too.
Social contracts can be explicit, such as laws, or implicit, such as raising one's hand in class to speak. The U.S. Constitution is often cited as an explicit example of part of America's social contract. It sets out what the government can and cannot do. People who choose to live in America agree to be governed by the moral and political obligations outlined in the Constitution's social contract.
Indeed, regardless of whether social contracts are explicit or implicit, they provide a valuable framework for harmony in society." - ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
[Refer https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/social-contract-theory#:~:text=Social%20contract%20theory%20says%20that,a%20divine%20being%20requires%20it. ]
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"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility; a political, social agreement to live together with freedom from unjustified force or fraud:]
'The Social Contract', originally published as 'On the Social Contract'; or, 'Principles of Political Rights' (French: 'Du contrat social'; ou 'Principes du droit politique') by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his 'Discourse on Inequality' (1755).
The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right.
The stated aim of 'The Social Contract' is to determine whether there can be a legitimate political authority, since people's interactions he saw at his time seemed to put them in a state far worse than the good one they were at in the state of nature, even though living in isolation. He concludes book one, chapter three with, 'Let us then admit that force does not create right, and that we are obliged to obey only legitimate powers', which is to say, the ability to coerce is not a legitimate power, and there is no rightful duty to submit to it. A state has no right to enslave a conquered people.
In this desired social contract, everyone will be free because they all forfeit the same number of rights and impose the same duties on all. Rousseau argues that it is absurd for a man to surrender his freedom for slavery; thus, the participants must have a right to choose the laws under which they live." - Wikipedia.org
[Refer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract ]
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"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility; a political, social agreement to live together with freedom from unjustified force or fraud:]
Social contract:
In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is a theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority (of the ruler, or to the decision of a majority) in exchange for protection of their remaining rights or maintenance of the social order. The relation between natural and legal rights is often a topic of social contract theory. The term takes its name from 'The Social Contract' (French: Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique), a 1762 book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that discussed this concept. Although the antecedents of social contract theory are found in antiquity, in Greek and Stoic philosophy and Roman and Canon Law, the heyday of the social contract was the mid-17th to early 19th centuries, when it emerged as the leading doctrine of political legitimacy.
The starting point for most social contract theories is an examination of the human condition absent of any political order (termed the 'state of nature' by Thomas Hobbes). In this condition, individuals' actions are bound only by their personal power and conscience. From this shared starting point, social contract theorists seek to demonstrate why a rational individual would voluntarily consent to give up their natural freedom to obtain the benefits of political order. Prominent of 17th- and 18th-century theorists of social contract and natural rights include Hugo Grotius (1625), Thomas Hobbes (1651), Samuel von Pufendorf (1673), John Locke (1689), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) and Immanuel Kant (1797), each approaching the concept of political authority differently. Grotius posited that individual humans had natural rights. Thomas Hobbes famously said that in a 'state of nature', human life would be 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'. In the absence of political order and law, everyone would have unlimited natural freedoms, including the 'right to all things' and thus the freedom to plunder, rape and murder; there would be an endless 'war of all against all' (bellum omnium contra omnes). To avoid this, free men contract with each other to establish political community (civil society) through a social contract in which they all gain security in return for subjecting themselves to an absolute sovereign, one man or an assembly of men. Though the sovereign's edicts may well be arbitrary and tyrannical, Hobbes saw absolute government as the only alternative to the terrifying anarchy of a state of nature. Hobbes asserted that humans consent to abdicate their rights in favor of the absolute authority of government (whether monarchical or parliamentary). Pufendorf disputed Hobbes's equation of a state of nature with war. Alternatively, Locke and Rousseau argued that we gain civil rights in return for accepting the obligation to respect and defend the rights of others, giving up some freedoms to do so.
The central assertion that social contract theory approaches is that law and political order are not natural, but human creations. The social contract and the political order it creates are simply the means towards an end -- the benefit of the individuals involved -- and legitimate only to the extent that they fulfill their part of the agreement. Hobbes argued that government is not a party to the original contract and citizens are not obligated to submit to the government when it is too weak to act effectively to suppress factionalism and civil unrest. According to other social contract theorists, when the government fails to secure their natural rights (Locke) or satisfy the best interests of society (called the 'general will' by Rousseau), citizens can withdraw their obligation to obey, or change the leadership through elections or other means including, when necessary, violence. Locke believed that natural rights were inalienable, and therefore the rule of God superseded government authority, while Rousseau believed that democracy (self-rule) was the best way to ensure welfare while maintaining individual freedom under the rule of law. The Lockean concept of the social contract was invoked in the United States Declaration of Independence. Social contract theories were eclipsed in the 19th century in favor of utilitarianism, Hegelianism and Marxism; they were revived in the 20th century, notably in the form of a thought experiment by John Rawls." - Wikipedia.org
[Refer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract ]
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"[Morality and ethics; The Golden Rule of treating others as you'd like to be treated; reciprocity; live and let live:] For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela
Former President of South Africa, political leader, philanthropist.
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"[Individualism rather than racism, sexism, classism, etc:] One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings." - Franklin Thomas
Philanthropist and civil rights activist.
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"[Small, limited government versus large, unlimited, 'interventionist' government:] The unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism did not begin in the '30s and '40s with the men usually associated with those names. Those horrors were simply the end result of a long evolution of ideas leading to the consolidation of power in central government..." - Walter E. Williams
(1936- ) Columnist, Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Source: Conservative Chronicle, September 20, 1995.
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"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." - Michael J. Fox
Actor afflicted with Parkinson's disease at age 30.
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"The primal principle of democracy [and free-market capitalism's informed free choice] is the worth and dignity of the individual." - Edward Bellamy
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"[Small, limited government versus large, over-reaching, interventionist government:] The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American Democratic politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success!" - Stephen Covey
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"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility; small limited government versus big, power-hungry, interventionist government:] My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. That government is best which governs least." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President.
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"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility; small limited government versus big, power-hungry, interventionist government:] I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President.
1820. Source: letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 September 1820; The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition, Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., vol. 15 (278).
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"[Beware...] The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard and very polished people [leaders, politicians, bureaucrats, etc].
" - Jean de la Fontaine
(1621-1695), poet and fabulist.
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"[Small, limited government versus unlimited, power-hungry, interventionist statist government:] This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' [who wish to print money to benefit some people at the expense of others believing they'll be rewarded with their vote] tirades against gold [the 'gold standard' and the non-use of fiat currency which is backed only by the the power to tax and is unlimited except by political will]. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth [through dollar devaluation and therefore inflation]. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard." - Alan Greenspan
"Gold and Economic Freedom" [1966]
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"[Ethics and morality: Within a social contract, to maximize individual life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and material gain-property,] ...rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others [i.e. freedom from force or fraud]." - Thomas Jefferson
Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany [1819].
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"[Small, limited government versus large, power-hungry, interventionist, statist government:] It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve." - Henry George
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"[Morality and ethics: 'live and let live - if free from force and fraud':] In a society with a social contract that respects freedom from force and fraud, you should not be surprised to be exposed to a lot of 'individuality' including extremely 'unusual' even 'strange' speech, beliefs, behavior, etc - so long as it is peaceful and voluntary and not deceptive. This is the price we all have to pay to ensure everyone's - including our own - right to free, informed choice, without force, coercion or fraud, in our pursuit of our self-defined 'best'- selves, life, liberty, happiness and property." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"As government expands [beyond ensuring freedom from force and fraud], liberty contracts." - Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
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"In a [free-market capitalist] consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of [self-created] slaves: the prisoners of addiction [who want more of what they already have] and the prisoners of envy [who want what other people have. The important thing to remember is that in a free society, people are free to manage their desires through imaginatively controlling their attention and focus, or we would never have come up with the aphoristic wisdom of 'Monkey see, monkey do!' And 'Out of sight and out of mind!']." - Ivan Illich
(1926-2002), philosopher and priest.
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"The key to any relationship is to understand clearly what the other person wants. This is true whether that person is a spouse, an employee, a boss, or a friend. It is a task that is made more difficult by the fact that many people don't truly understand what it is they want, or have many wants that contradict or compete with each other. But that difficulty does not lessen the importance of understanding those wants, both within yourself and within those people who are most important to you." - David Corbett
A Quote from his book, 'The Art of Character'.
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"Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men [and women] as sacrificial animals [without an equal legal right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and personal property] and to rule them by physical force [and fraud]?" - Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum] Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter.
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"[Individuality, identity and authenticity:] We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Do not expect justice where might is right. [The United States Bill of Rights, which comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, is there to ensure minorities are not taken advantage of, even by a democratic majority vote.]" - Plato
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"[W]henever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence. Whensoever therefore the Legislative shall transgress this fundamental Rule of Society; and either by Ambition, Fear, Folly or Corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other an Absolute Power over the Lives, Liberties, and Estates of the People; By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power, the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty." - John Locke
(1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist
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"A constitution is not the act of a government,
but of a people constituting a government;
and government without a constitution is power without a right.
All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning.
It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources.
All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation.
Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." - Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author.
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"[Small, limited government versus large, power-hungry, unlimited government:] Unlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. [This statement preceded the now famous, British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lord Acton's similar statement, 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely'!]" - William Pitt, Sr.
(1708-1778) 1st Earl of Chatham, English Statesman, Orator. Stated on January 9, 1770.
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"[Individualism, vocation and career:-] We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all!" - William Wilberforce
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"Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. [This is to be expected. If you train someone to use a 'hammer', every problem starts to look like a 'nail'! And never forget Upton Sinclair's statement, 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something [individual freedom from force and fraud leading to honest, voluntary cooperation to solve mutual problems rather than encouraging greater government bureaucratic, force and coercion, advised and managed by political science graduates], when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!']" - Rudolph J. Rummel
(1932-2014) Professor of political science, University of Hawaii. Source: 'Death by Government', 1995.
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"[While complete freedom from force and fraud is possible, complete equality, excluding the application of law, is impossible. Never blind yourself or others to this absolute truth:] ...there is always inequity in life.
Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco.
It's very hard in the military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair." - John F. Kennedy
US President. Quote from 'President's News Conference of March 21, 1962 (107),' Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1962.
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"[The importance of individual freedom and, in particular, personal responsibility:] When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands." - Jeff Olson
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"All free constitutions [social contracts] are formed with two views -- to deter the governed from crime, and the governors from tyranny." - John Lansing, Jr.
(1754-1829) American lawyer, politician. Source: Debate, Constitutional Convention, 1787.
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"[Small, limited government versus large, power-hungry government:] 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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"[Small, limited government versus large, power-hungry government:] To the extent that a society limits its government to policing functions which curb the individuals who engage in aggressive and criminal actions, and conducts its economic affairs on the basis of free and willing exchange, to that extent domestic peace prevails. When a society departs from this norm, its governing class begins, in effect, to make war upon the rest of the nation. A situation is created in which everyone is victimized by everyone else under the fiction of each living at the expense of all." - Edmund A. Opitz
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"[Ethics and morality: 'Live free and let live free' - so long as there is no physical hurting each-other:] To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela
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"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility:] A Jnani (knower of God) and a Premika (lover of God) were once passing through a forest. On the way they saw a tiger at a distance. The Jnani said, 'There is no reason why we should flee; the Almighty God will certainly protect us.' At this the Premika said, 'No, brother, come, let us run away. Why should we trouble the Lord for what can be accomplished by our own exertions?'" - Sri Ramakrishna
(1836 - 1886), Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya, was an Indian Hindu mystic, saint, and religious leader in 19th century Bengal.
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"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility:] The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail." - Sri Ramakrishna
(1836 - 1886), Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya, was an Indian Hindu mystic, saint, and religious leader in 19th century Bengal.
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"By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments. The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments, that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity." - John Hospers
(1918-2011) Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, author.
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"The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned -- the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach -- is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!" - Jacob G. Hornberger
(1950 - ), American author, journalist, politician, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation. Source: Gun Control, Patriotism and Civil Disobedience, Pamphlet published by International Society for Individual Liberty.
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"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts:] I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace." - Francois Rabelais
French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.
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"[Limited versus unlimited government power:] When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all Power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source: letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821. Ref: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, editor H.A. Washington. New York: H.W. Derby, 1861.
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"[Small, limited government versus ever-growing, power-hungry, unlimited government:] No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!" - Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
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"[Politicians:] Of one man in especial, beyond any one else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic... It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest. The very last thing an intelligent and self-respecting member of a democratic community should do is to reward any public man because that public man says that he will get the private citizen something to which this private citizen is not entitled, or will gratify some emotion or animosity which this private citizen ought not to possess... If a public man tries to get your vote by saying that he will do something wrong in your interest, you can be absolutely certain that if ever it becomes worth his while he will do something wrong against your interest!" - Theodore Roosevelt
(1858 - 1919), Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy Roosevelt or his initials T. R., was an American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian and writer, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
This quote from his superb Sorbonne address, originally delivered in Paris on April 23 of 1910 under the title “Citizenship in a Republic” and later published as “Duties of the Citizen” in the 1920 volume 'Roosevelt's Writings'.
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