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[Quote No.38047] Need Area: Friends > General
"...should it not be the function of the Federal government under a democracy to limit its activities to those which a democracy may adequately deal, such for example as national defense, maintaining law and order, protecting life and property, preventing dishonesty, and ... guarding the public against ... vested special interests?" - Lewis W. Douglas
Director of the US Bureau of the Budget. Quote from an address he made at Harvard University in May 1935.
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[Quote No.38060] Need Area: Friends > General
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. [Statists, socialists and every paternalistic politician should remember this.]" - E. M. Forster
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[Quote No.38073] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even." - Franklin P. Jones
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[Quote No.38094] Need Area: Friends > General
"Respect Existence or Expect Resistance." - Anon
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[Quote No.38098] Need Area: Friends > General
"People [especially their political representatives - politicians] only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them." - Jean Monnet
French political economist and diplomat. He is regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity.
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[Quote No.38100] Need Area: Friends > General
"In order for people to fully enjoy their inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and private property, individuals and groups must ensure that fraud [deception] and force are not allowed. This is the reason I believe that laws are required as well as police and military defence. Many other things that politicians try to decide for us I think are a violation of our inalienable rights to choose for ourselves so long as we don't impinge on others' equal rights and as such are immoral. This is a Libertarian philosophy." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.38114] Need Area: Friends > General
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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[Quote No.38117] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Poem:]
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever, 'twixt that darkness and that light.
" - James Lowell
1845
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[Quote No.38131] Need Area: Friends > General
"Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse." - Georg C. Lichtenberg
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[Quote No.38145] Need Area: Friends > General
"The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes." - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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[Quote No.38152] Need Area: Friends > General
"All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion [rather than choice] to satisfy anothers desires." - Herbert Spencer
(1820 - 1903) British Philosopher
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[Quote No.38154] Need Area: Friends > General
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice." - Martin Luther King, Jr
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[Quote No.38155] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Anti-racism:] Life's piano can only produce the melodies of brotherhood when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary, and beautiful as the white keys." - Martin Luther King, Jr
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[Quote No.38161] Need Area: Friends > General
"Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent." - Carl von Clausewitz
Famous military strategician
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[Quote No.38163] Need Area: Friends > General
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river." - Nikita Khrushchev
(1894 - 1971), First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1953-1964.
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[Quote No.38168] Need Area: Friends > General
"Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternative." - Barry Goldwater
US Politician
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[Quote No.38169] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed." - Barry Goldwater
US Politician
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[Quote No.38171] Need Area: Friends > General
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It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism." - George Washington
US President. Quote from his 'Farewell Address', September 26, 1796.
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[Quote No.38174] Need Area: Friends > General
"But the safety of the people of America [or any country] against dangers from foreign force depends not only on their forbearing to give just causes of war to other nations, but also on their placing and continuing themselves in such a situation as not to invite hostility or insult; for it need not be observed, that there are pretended as well as just causes for war." - John Jay
Federalist No. 4 -November 7, 1787.
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[Quote No.38213] Need Area: Friends > General
"The only significant measure of your life is the positive effect you have on others. " - Dean Kootz
Novelist
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[Quote No.38220] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politics is the exploitation of power for gain. In order to increase power and arrange the pressure of deadlines crises are very useful even to the point that they are sought and stage-managed. For example...] When things get really difficult ... suddenly solutions which seemed impossible become possible...Because of this, the crisis represents an opportunity. I'm not saying that I enjoy being in a crisis, but I'm not worried. Europe always moved forward in times of crisis. Sometimes you need a little pressure for certain decisions to be taken" - Wolfgang Schauble
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[Quote No.38221] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politics is the exploitation of power for gain. In order to increase power and arrange the pressure of deadlines crises are very useful even to the point that they are sought and stage-managed. For example...] Europe will be forged in crises, and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises." - Jean Monnet
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[Quote No.38226] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians that seek to buy votes should remember...] Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love." - Thomas Fuller
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[Quote No.38227] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is only one basic human right,
the right to do as you damn well please [so long as it does not hurt anyone else].
And with it comes the only basic human duty,
the duty to take the consequences [good but especially bad, without asking another to suffer to mitigate your bad consequences]." - P. J. O'Rourke
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[Quote No.38228] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong [because the government bureaucrats will try to punish you]." - Voltaire
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[Quote No.38230] Need Area: Friends > General
"One of the greatest delusions in the world
is the hope that the evils in this world
are to be cured by [government intervention and] legislation." - Thomas B. Reed
1886
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[Quote No.38231] Need Area: Friends > General
"When the government's boot is on your throat,
whether it is a left boot or a right boot
is of no consequence." - Gary Lloyd
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[Quote No.38232] Need Area: Friends > General
"The issue today [in politics especially] is the same
as it has been throughout all history,
whether man shall be allowed to govern himself
or be ruled by a small elite." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.38234] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Why is it so hard to get pro big government politicians, bureaucrats, economists and voters to understand the dangers of socialism to individual rights and freedoms?] It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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[Quote No.38241] Need Area: Friends > General
"I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution." - Ulysses S. Grant
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[Quote No.38244] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law [that enshrines human rights]. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny." - James F. Cooper
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[Quote No.38245] Need Area: Friends > General
"Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind." - Augustine J. Duganne
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[Quote No.38252] Need Area: Friends > General
"...even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them." - Learned Hand
[1872 - 1961] US Judge
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[Quote No.38253] Need Area: Friends > General
"The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion." - Learned Hand
[1872 - 1961] US Judge
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[Quote No.38256] Need Area: Friends > General
"A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden." - Albert Camus
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[Quote No.38260] Need Area: Friends > General
"Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell
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[Quote No.38261] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government." - Mackenzie King
[1874 - 1950]
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[Quote No.38262] Need Area: Friends > General
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government." - Edward Abbey
[1927 - 1989]
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[Quote No.38264] Need Area: Friends > General
"At the bottom of a good deal of the [politics of war] bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
[1814 - 1880]
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[Quote No.38268] Need Area: Friends > General
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy." - Montesquieu
[1689 - 1755]
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[Quote No.38270] Need Area: Friends > General
"I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood." - Grover Cleveland
[1837 – 1908] the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Letter to the House of Representatives, 1887.
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[Quote No.38273] Need Area: Friends > General
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." - Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
US Navy Admiral
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[Quote No.38282] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you have been voting for politicians who promise
to give you goodies at someone else's expense [buying your vote], then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves. [Why? Because your previous vote has taught them that forcefully violating some people's private property rights is okay. If you don't believe that forced confiscation by an individual, company or a government is moral, then you should remember that when you vote regardless of whether the act benefits you or not.]" - Thomas Sowell
1992
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[Quote No.38284] Need Area: Friends > General
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem [except for the constituency - 'friends' - the government is particularly interested in 'helping' in order to buy their vote]." - Milton Friedman
Famous American economist
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[Quote No.38303] Need Area: Friends > General
"Confidence ... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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[Quote No.38305] Need Area: Friends > General
"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology." - Red Auerbach
[1917 - 2006]
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[Quote No.38307] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed [as well as time-tested truths to be relearned and reinforced]." - Samuel Johnson
[1709 - 1784]
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[Quote No.38310] Need Area: Friends > General
"The sovereign, after taking individuals one by one in his powerful hands and kneading them to his liking, reaches out to embrace society as a whole. Over it he spreads a fine mesh of uniform, minute, and complex rules, through which not even the most original minds and most vigorous souls can poke their heads above the crowd. He does not break men's wills but softens, bends, and guides them. He seldom forces anyone to act but consistently opposes action. He does not destroy things but prevents them from coming into being. Rather than tyrannize, he inhibits, represses, saps, stifles, and stultifies, and in the end he reduces each nation to nothing but a flock of timid and industrious animals, with the government as its shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America, Vol. 2, 1840.
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[Quote No.38325] Need Area: Friends > General
"Let us provide the means by which more can help themselves. This shall be our goal.
Let us generously help those who are not able to help themselves. But let us stop helping those who are able to help themselves but refuse to do so." - Richard Nixon
Member of US Republican Party and 37th US President. Quote from his 1971 Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union.
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[Quote No.38326] Need Area: Friends > General
"'We are going to give you [the citizen] a new chance to have more to say about the decisions that affect your future – a chance to participate in government – because we are going to provide more centers of power where what you do can make a difference that you can see and feel in your own life and the life of your whole community.'
The further away government is from people, the stronger government becomes and the weaker people become. And a nation with a strong government and a weak people is an empty shell.
I reject the patronizing idea that government in Washington, D.C., [or any country's seat of central government] is inevitably more wise, more honest, and more efficient than government at the local or State level. The honesty and efficiency of government depends on people. Government at all levels has good people and bad people. And the way to get more good people into government is to give them more opportunity to do good things.
The idea that a bureaucratic elite in Washington [or any other country's political centre] knows best what is best for people everywhere and that you cannot trust local governments is really a contention that you cannot trust people to govern themselves. This notion is completely foreign to the American experience. Local government is the government closest to the people, it is most responsive to the individual person. It is people’s government in a far more intimate way than the Government in Washington can ever be.
People came to America [and every free democratic country] because they wanted to determine their own future rather than to live in a country where others determined their future for them.
What this change means is that once again in America we are placing our trust in people.
I have faith in people. I trust the judgment of people. Let us give the people of America a chance, a bigger voice in deciding for themselves those questions that so greatly affect their lives." - Richard Nixon
Member of US Republican Party and 37th US President. Quote from his 1971 Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union.
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