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[Quote No.32923] Need Area: Friends > General "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32930] Need Area: Friends > General "Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions." - George F. Will Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32931] Need Area: Friends > General "No man [or woman] can put a [real or a metaphorical] chain about the ankle of his fellow man [or woman] without at last finding the other end fastened about his [or her] own neck. [Therefore finding ways to give responsible freedom to others, increases not only their freedom but ours as well.]" - Frederick Douglass Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington D.C., October 22, 1823. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32932] Need Area: Friends > General "Modern war is merciless, it does not spare pregnant women or infants; it is indiscriminate killing and destroying. It does not respect the rights of neutrals. Millions are killed, enslaved, or expelled... The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest [superiority and entitlement]." - Ludwig von Mises Famous economist and political thinker. From his book, 'Human Action', published 1949. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32940] Need Area: Friends > General "The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so." - Plato Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32947] Need Area: Friends > General "Each is responsible for his own actions." - H. L. Hunt Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32950] Need Area: Friends > General "History is the essence of innumerable biographies." - Thomas Carlyle Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32965] Need Area: Friends > General "When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue." - Don Marquis Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32966] Need Area: Friends > General "Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor:- infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people." - Wendell Phillips Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32982] Need Area: Friends > General "Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough [with a change of heart, ideology or leadership] to take away everything you have. [Therefore it was considered essential by the wise foundering fathers of the United States to set in place strict legislation that restricted the size and powers the people gave their government so the people would always have to develop the character, skills and attitudes to primarily look after themselves and thereby never have to rely on or fear the whims of their government.]" - Davy Crockett Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32984] Need Area: Friends > General "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that, if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too." - William Somerset Maugham Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32990] Need Area: Friends > General "Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive." - Ayn Rand Author and philosopher. From her book, 'The Vigil', published 1946. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.32992] Need Area: Friends > General "Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. [They should be very careful what they wish for. Because while they may feel okay while the government is compelling others to do what these individuals want or don't care about, eventually interfering governments, as they grow stronger, nearly always get around to lessening the freedoms they care about too and then they feel very differently about big government and its ever increasing power and desire to interfere in and control the lives of law abiding citizens. An example of this is any of the many failed fascist or communist states during the twentieth century.]" - Ludwig von Mises Famous economist. From his book, 'Human Action', published 1949. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33006] Need Area: Friends > General "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." - John Stuart Mill Philosopher. From his book, 'On Liberty', published 1859. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33028] Need Area: Friends > General "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." - Spinoza Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33040] Need Area: Friends > General "[When someone behaves badly, do not get angry or try to get even. Just remember the world has a strange way of eventually punishing the bad and be patient because...] Time wounds all heels!" - John Lennon Musician and member of the 'Beatles'. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33045] Need Area: Friends > General "Peace is our gift to each other." - Elie Wiesel Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33051] Need Area: Friends > General "Labor to keep alive in your heart that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." - George Washington Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33054] Need Area: Friends > General "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Benjamin Franklin Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33061] Need Area: Friends > General "Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice." - Leo Buscaglia (1924 - 1998), American lecturer and author Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33062] Need Area: Friends > General "The measure of a life [to society as a whole], after all, is not its duration, but its donation." - Corrie Ten Boom Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33072] Need Area: Friends > General "Integrity is an accurate reflection in word and deed of whatever one's highest conscience dictates as right." - Leonard E. Read Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33075] Need Area: Friends > General "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." - Thomas Jefferson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33082] Need Area: Friends > General "A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war." - Simone Weil Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33083] Need Area: Friends > General "Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power." - Ludwig von Mises Famous Austrian economist. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33092] Need Area: Friends > General "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33111] Need Area: Friends > General "When you find people different from yourself remember 'It takes all sorts to make a world!' " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33115] Need Area: Friends > General "Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend." - Akhenaton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33117] Need Area: Friends > General "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33118] Need Area: Friends > General "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 Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33119] Need Area: Friends > General "The whole aim of [immoral] practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33130] Need Area: Friends > General "[Government] Power may justly be compared to a great river. While kept within its due bounds it is both beautiful and useful. But when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. If, then, this is the nature of power, let us at least do our duty, and like wise men who value freedom use our utmost care to support liberty, the only bulwark against lawless power, which in all ages has sacrificed to its wild lust and boundless ambition the blood of the best men that ever lived...." - Andrew Hamilton Quote from 'The Trial of John Peter Zenger', 1735. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33149] Need Area: Friends > General "Just and moderate governments are every where quiet, every where safe. But oppression raises ferments, and makes men struggle to cast off an uneasy and tyrannical yoke." - John Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33150] Need Area: Friends > General "Virtue is the only true nobility." - Thomas Fuller Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33155] Need Area: Friends > General "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), German-born American physicist. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33163] Need Area: Friends > General "Nothing is so galling to [intelligent] people, not broken in from the birth, as a paternal, or, in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink, and wear." - T.B. MacAulay Quoted from 'Southey's Colloquies', 1830. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33166] Need Area: Friends > General "The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves." - George Bernard Shaw Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33169] Need Area: Friends > General "I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world." - Socrates Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33198] Need Area: Friends > General "I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one." - Edith Louisa Cavell Oct. 15, 1915 Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33201] Need Area: Friends > General "The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink [communication and free choice] hungers to write history with sword and blood [war and force]." - Eric Hoffer Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33202] Need Area: Friends > General "Manners are love in a cool climate." - Quentin Crisp Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33216] Need Area: Friends > General "[Small, limited government versus big, power-hungry, interventionist, statist government:] The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion [of entitlement] that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies [and each individual's initiative, enterprise and character is the worse for it]." - Herbert Spencer From his book, 'The Man versus the State', published 1884. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33217] Need Area: Friends > General "[The more powerful a nation, just like an individual, the greater its responsibility to act morally, for if we...] Set aside justice, then, and what are kingdoms but great bands of brigands? For what are brigands' bands but little kingdoms? For in brigandage the hands of the underlings are directed by the commander, the confederacy of them is sworn together, and the pillage is shared by law among them. And if those ragamuffins grow up to be able enough to keep forts, build habitations, possess cities, and conquer adjoining nations, then their government is no longer called brigandage, but graced with the eminent name of a kingdom, given and gotten not because they have left their practices but because they use them without danger of law. Elegant and excellent was that pirate's answer to the great Macedonian Alexander, who had taken him; the king asking him how he durst molest the seas so, he replied with a free spirit: 'How darest thou molest the whole earth? But because I do it only with a little ship, I am called brigand: thou doing it with a great navy art called emperor.'" - St. Augustine Christian philosopher. From his book, 'City of God', Book IV, published 410 A.D. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33225] Need Area: Friends > General "War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow." - Martin Luther King Jr. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33226] Need Area: Friends > General "Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements." - Werner Erhard Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33228] Need Area: Friends > General "A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33234] Need Area: Friends > General "Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them." - Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888), American author. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33235] Need Area: Friends > General "Never contend [or go to war] with a man [or group] who has nothing to lose [or is happy to lose so long as you lose too or who wants to die]." - Baltasar Gracian Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33249] Need Area: Friends > General "People who fight fire [anger and violence] with fire [anger and violence] usually end up with ashes [destroyed friendships, health, emotions, property and finances]." - Abigail Van Buren Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.33250] Need Area: Friends > General "You must look into people, as well as at them." - Lord Chesterfield Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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