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[Quote No.62491] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is a place for government in the affairs of men, and our Declaration of Independence tells us precisely what that place is. The role of government is to protect individuals in their God-given individual rights. Freedom [from force and fraud] is the natural birthright of man, but all that government can do in behalf of freedom is to let the individual alone, and it should secure him in his rights by making others let him alone." - Rev. Edmund A. Opitz
(1914-2006) American minister, author.
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[Quote No.62492] Need Area: Friends > General
"America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others. [Prof. Aeon Skoble describes the difference between positive and negative rights. Fundamentally, positive rights require others to provide you with either a good or service. A negative right, on the other hand, only requires others to abstain from interfering with your actions.]" - Alex Epstein
American writer. Source: 'John McCain's Deadly Moral Code' - (published 2000.08.12) Capitalism Magazine.
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[Quote No.62502] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Foreign policy:] The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation." - Jimmy Carter
U.S. President
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[Quote No.62519] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility versus big, unlimited, paternalistic, interventionist, statist government:] I think it's time for us to declare our independence from an oppressive government that seeks to control our money and our lives in ways unimaginable to those who rebelled against the British Crown in 1776. Our revolution is peaceful, and it concentrates on winning hearts and minds one at a time. But it marches on. We must reclaim the spirit of independence every day and every night and intensify the struggle against those who seek to impose tyranny upon us." - Ron Paul
Libertarian, doctor and former U.S. politician. Quote from his article, 'We Must Declare Independence', July 2017. [http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/july/03/we-must-declare-independence/ ]
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[Quote No.62520] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Limited government because 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely':] It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights... Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power... Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson
Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
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[Quote No.62528] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts: conflict and war:] When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. [This sentiment is echoed by Ben Franklin's statement, 'We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.']" - Edmund Burke
18th-century political theorist and philosopher. Quote from his essay, 'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents'.
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[Quote No.62539] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice. Source: Whitney v. California, 1927.
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[Quote No.62540] Need Area: Friends > General
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs." - Walter Lippmann
(1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator. Source: An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society, 1937.
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[Quote No.62543] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts: Conflict and war:] It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." - Adlai Stevenson
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[Quote No.62544] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom and self-determination:] For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive, we shall never in any wise consent submit to the rule of the English, for it is not for glory we fight, nor riches, or for honour, but for freedom alone, which no good man loses but with his life." - Robert Bruce
(1274-1329), [Robert I] King of Scots (1306-1329), known as Robert the Bruce. Source: Declaration of Arbroath, April 6, 1320.
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[Quote No.62545] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The social contract of rights each individual can expect in society from other individuals and their government, including the most important human birth-right, namely freedom from force and fraud:] We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, Trial by Jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence." - Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Source: To Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 1946.
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[Quote No.62551] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; religious and spiritual founders and leaders:] ...the princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve mankind.
" - Woodrow Wilson
American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
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[Quote No.62552] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; reciprocity and the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you'd like to be treated; empathy:] ...I think some suffering, maybe even intense suffering, is a necessary ingredient for life, certainly for developing compassion [to enable empathy, sympathy and identification with others]." - Desmond Tutu
[http://spiritualityhealth.com/articles/wise-selfishness-rather-foolish-selfishness ]
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[Quote No.62553] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Live and let live: do what you like so long as you don't hurt another:] The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source: Thomas Jefferson to M. L'Hommande, 1787.
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[Quote No.62557] Need Area: Friends > General
"The only freedom deserving 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. Each is the proper guardian of his own health,
whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist.
Source: 'On Liberty', 1859.
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[Quote No.62563] Need Area: Friends > General
"['Power corrupts and absolute (unlimited) power corrupts absolutely':] Power may justly be compared to a great river. While kept within its due bounds [to protect each individual's equal right to freedom from force or fraud] 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..." - Andrew Hamilton
'The Trial of John Peter Zenger', 1735.
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[Quote No.62564] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism and authenticity:] Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage that it contained." - John Stuart Mill
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[Quote No.62567] Need Area: Friends > General
"Professional politics is a trade in which the sly outweigh the wise.
" - Hilaire Belloc
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[Quote No.62575] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is but one defensible social ideal, and that is a world in which every individual is free to work out the inner impulses of the Spirit, without aggression on his part or interference on the part of others. A State which accomplished this simple, primal duty, the protection of all its citizens, would accomplish something greater than has yet been historically recorded, and something which no State, preoccupied with illegitimate and paternalistic activities, is ever likely to accomplish." - Hanford Henderson
'The North American Review', 1924.
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[Quote No.62577] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Paternal, interventionist government versus personal, individual help and charity:] The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor." - Herbert Hoover
US President
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[Quote No.62582] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility:-] I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
" - John Enoch Powell
(1912-1998) British politician and member of Parliament
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[Quote No.62583] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government versus large, unlimited government:] The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition ... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement [although not as cheap, far or fast as otherwise], in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration." - Adam Smith
(1723-1790) Scottish philosopher and economist
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[Quote No.62607] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility; 'live and let live':] The only part of the conduct of anyone for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." - John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
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[Quote No.62608] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government:] The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise." - Mark Twain
(1835-1910), pen-name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
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[Quote No.62614] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Skepticism and eternal vigilance are the price for freedom:] All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." - James Madison
Debates in the Federal Convention, July 11, 1787.
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[Quote No.62615] Need Area: Friends > General
"Humility is to the various virtues what the chain is in a rosary. Take away the chain and the beads are scattered; remove humility, and all virtues vanish." - John Vianney
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[Quote No.62638] Need Area: Friends > General
"Individual liberty is individual power..." - John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848) 6th US President. Source: Letter to James Lloyd, 1 October 1822.
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[Quote No.62640] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Resist the unjustified usurpation of individual freedom and power. Never forget that...] The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.62661] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?" - D. H. Lawrence
(1885-1938), Letter, 12 July 1916.
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[Quote No.62662] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility:] I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?" - D. H. Lawrence
(1885-1938). Source: Letter, 12 July 1916.
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[Quote No.62667] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politics:] Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arrange sufficiently satisfactory compromises of interests to remain there. Minor parties have been attached to some special idea or interest, and they have generally expressed their positions through firm and identifiable programs and principles. Their function has not been to win or govern, but to agitate, educate, generate new ideas, and supply the dynamic element in our political life. When a third party's demands become popular enough, they are appropriated by one or both of the major parties and the third party disappears. Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die. " - Richard Hofstadter
(1916 – 1970) American historian. Quote from his book, 'The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R.', Chapter III, part I, p.97, (Published 1955).
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[Quote No.62668] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals...It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." - Albert Gallatin
of the NY Historical Society, October 7, 1789.
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[Quote No.62670] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom from force and fraud:] The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force." - Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author. Source: 'Atlas Shrugged'.
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[Quote No.62676] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility versus paternalistic, interventionist government:] If you think of yourselves as [powerless-] helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a [powerful-] despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual [and need a lot of help and protection in order to live up to their potential and be happy and safe]." - Frank Herbert
(1920-1986), author. As quoted in his book, 'The Dosadi Experiment'.
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[Quote No.62699] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Each person has an inalienable minimum right to receive and duty to give equal freedom from force and fraud:] Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." - Robert G. Ingersoll
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[Quote No.62705] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property:-]
Happiness in life is like a smorgasbord. If 100 people went to a smorgasbord and each put food on their plate in the quantity and mix that each felt would be most pleasing to him, every plate would be different. Even a husband and wife would go up to the smorgasbord and come back with plates that looked completely different.
Happiness is the same way. Each person requires a particular combination of those ingredients to feel the very best about himself or herself.
And your mix is changing continually. If you went to the same smorgasbord every day for a year, you probably would come back with a different plateful of food each time. Each day - sometimes each hour - only you can tell what it takes to make you happy.
Therefore, the only way to judge whether a job, a relationship, an investment, or any decision, is right for you is to get in touch with your feelings and listen to your heart. [No-one else can do this for you as well as you can do it for yourself! This is the basis for the belief in the importance and value of individual freedom and personal responsibility over the alternative of freedom-reducing, paternal, interventionist, statist government!]" - Brian Tracy
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[Quote No.62706] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom rather than freedom-reducing, paternalistic, interventionist, statist government:] Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human." - Isaiah Berlin
(1909-1997), Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. Quote from 'Five Essays on Liberty', published 1969.
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[Quote No.62707] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom, individualism, and being yourself, so long as it doesn't hurt another's physical person or property:] When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." - Justice Charles Evans Hughes
(1862-1948) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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[Quote No.62730] Need Area: Friends > General
"For only in peace can the economic system achieve its ends, the fullest satisfaction of human needs and wants!
" - Ludwig von Mises
Economist and philosopher. Quote from his book, 'Omnipotent Government', published 1944.
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[Quote No.62731] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government:] Under our [US] Constitution, the federal government has delegated, enumerated and thus limited powers. Power is delegated by the founding generation or through subsequent amendment (that makes it legitimate); enumerated in the constitution (that makes it legal); and limited by that enumeration. As the 10th Amendment says, if a power hasn't been delegated, the federal government doesn't have it. For 150 years, that design held for the most part. When faced with a welfare bill in 1794, for example, James Madison, the principal author of the Constitution, rose in the House to say that he could find no constitutional authority for the bill. A century later, when Congress passed a similar measure, President Cleveland vetoed it as beyond Congress' authority. That all changed during the New Deal as both congress and the president sought to expand federal power. When the Supreme court objected, rather than amend the Constitution, Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the court with six additional members. The scheme failed, but the threat worked. Thereafter, the court started reading the Constitution's General Welfare and Commerce Clauses so broadly that the doctrine of enumerated powers was essentially destroyed -- and with it limited government." - Roger Pilon
Vice President for Legal Affairs for the Cato Institute.
Source: 'Founders Intended Only Limited Powers', 'USA Today', Friday, July 21, 1995.
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[Quote No.62738] Need Area: Friends > General
"Politics is show business for ugly people. [In other words, politics is acting for people who aren't good looking enough to have a career in show business! Politics, like show business, is about - appealing to as many people as possible by looking and saying believably whatever is required by the part regardless of whether it is true or not - appearance over reality - sounding good rather than being good.]" - Paul Begala
An American political consultant and political commentator, best known as an adviser to President Bill Clinton.
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[Quote No.62740] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government versus large, interventionist, statist authoritarian government; ever-vigilant skepticism versus 'good-sounding' propaganda:] The government will make use of these [special, law-enforcement] powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one." - Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator. Source: attempting to allay the people's fears over the Reichstag's centralization of law enforcement with the passage of the 'Enabling Act' on March 23, 1933. The historian William Shirer attributes this Enabling Act alone as the legal basis for Hitler's dictatorship.
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[Quote No.62771] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature." - John Webbe
'Pennsylvania Gazette', 1736.
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[Quote No.62796] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics and the golden rule of treating others as you would like to be treated:] This is the sum of duty (dharma): do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you." - Mahabharata
[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mahabharata - states(Sanskrit: 'Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty') one of the two Sanskrit epic poems of ancient India (the other being the Ramayana). The Mahabharata is an important source of information on the development of Hinduism between 400 bce and 200 ce and is regarded by Hindus as both a text about dharma (Hindu moral law) and a history (itihasa, literally 'that's what happened'). Appearing in its present form about 400 ce, the Mahabharata consists of a mass of mythological and didactic material arranged around a central heroic narrative that tells of the struggle for sovereignty between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas (sons of Dhritarashtra, the descendant of Kuru) and the Pandavas (sons of Pandu). The poem is made up of almost 100,000 couplets—about seven times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined—divided into 18 parvans, or sections, plus a supplement titled Harivamsha (“Genealogy of the God Hari”; i.e., of Vishnu). Although it is unlikely that any single person wrote the poem, its authorship is traditionally ascribed to the sage Vyasa, who appears in the work as the grandfather of the Kauravas and the Pandavas. The date and even the historical occurrence of the war that is the central event of the Mahabharata are much debated.] This quote refers to - Anusasana Parva, Section 113, Verse 8.
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[Quote No.62819] Need Area: Friends > General
"A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to." - Thomas Hobbes
(1588-1679) English philosopher, political theorist.
Source: his book, 'Leviathan', published 1651.
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[Quote No.62820] Need Area: Friends > General
"There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men -- the lovers of freedom [for all] and the devoted advocates of power [for a select group]." - Robert Y. Hayne
(1791-1839 ) U.S. Senator for S.C. Source: Speech, 21 January 1830.
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[Quote No.62821] Need Area: Friends > General
"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for [peaceful, voluntary] development accorded to the individual." - Albert Einstein
(1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921.
Source: 15 September 1933.
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[Quote No.62836] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Whatever our degree of friends may be, we come more under their influence than we are aware.
Who of us acts and speaks without an eye to the approbations of those he loves? Is not the assent of another a sort of second conscience? ...We prop ourselves up with accomplices, we surround ourselves with those who can down for us the uprisings of conscience.
...We were born dependent, our happiness is in the hands of others. Our character is molded by them and receives its coloring from them as much as our feeling relates the parental impress." - Maria Mitchell
(1818 - 1889), astronomer. [https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/10/maria-mitchell-friendship/ ]
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[Quote No.62840] Need Area: Friends > General
"Do not expect justice where might is right." - Plato
(429 BC - 347 BC). Source: Phaedrus, 360 B.C.
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"Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest." - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Southey's Colloquies on Society, 1830.
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