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[Quote No.47912] Need Area: Friends > General
"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 [and unlimited trust in government] 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.31566] Need Area: Friends > General
"Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right." - Ayn Rand
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[Quote No.31571] Need Area: Friends > General
"Be such a man [or woman], and live such a life, that if every man [or woman] were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise." - Phillips Brooks
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[Quote No.31572] Need Area: Friends > General
"Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress." - George Houston
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[Quote No.31576] Need Area: Friends > General
"The art of peaceful living lies in keeping the peace, the whole peace, and nothing but the peace with those in your life." - Arnold Bennett
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[Quote No.31584] Need Area: Friends > General
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible." - Hannah Arendt
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[Quote No.31595] Need Area: Friends > General
"Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others." - Sir Roger L'Estrange
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[Quote No.31596] Need Area: Friends > General
"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." - William Shakespeare
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[Quote No.31597] Need Area: Friends > General
"[All politicians and generals should remember]... it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." - William Shakespeare
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[Quote No.31598] Need Area: Friends > General
"I am biased [and you should be too] against government, specifically the people who make and carry out its policies [which interfere in people's personal lives and free markets and weaken property rights and the rule of law]. It is to them that I look first for the cause of [any] social or economic problems, although it may not be the last place I look." - Sheldon Richman
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[Quote No.31607] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice." - Joseph De Maistre
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[Quote No.31611] Need Area: Friends > General
"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a
difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver." - Barbara De Angelis
American expert on relationships and love, trainer and author.
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[Quote No.31630] Need Area: Friends > General
"A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient." - Horace
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[Quote No.31636] Need Area: Friends > General
"Peace begets prosperity; Prosperity begets pride; Pride begets prejudice; Prejudice begets war; War begets poverty." - Proverb
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[Quote No.31646] Need Area: Friends > General
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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[Quote No.31647] Need Area: Friends > General
"Lying and stealing are next door neighbors." - Arabian Proverb
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[Quote No.31650] Need Area: Friends > General
"Of Liberty then I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others." - Thomas Jefferson
Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, April 4, 1819.
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[Quote No.31651] Need Area: Friends > General
"The percentage of correct decisions which individuals make is very high when they are risking their own money and their own future. The percentage of correct decisions is very low when made by politicians, so-called intellectuals, and others, regardless of their intelligence, who are not faced with the discipline of having to pay for their own mistakes with their own earnings." - A.W. Stewart
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[Quote No.31658] Need Area: Friends > General
"Politics is about man's relationship to the state. [For libertarians and other lovers of freedom and self-empowerment] That relationship, to be healthy, should be minimal. [and as Jefferson originally envisioned, for the rule of law and strict enforcement of property rights and not a big parent stopping individuals from developing an adult's self-responsibility and independence]" - Edward H. Crane
President of the Cato Institute, one of the United States's most prominent public policy research organizations.
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[Quote No.31659] Need Area: Friends > General
"Politicians are inclined to hubris which shows itself in a growing belief in absolutism - the first principle of Statism - that the State bureaucracy is competent to do all things, which history has shown to be painfully incorrect. This is why the U.S. Constitution and its wise creators, deliberately restricted the powers the people gave the federal government, defining many spheres of activity (education, agriculture, even some forms of foreign aid) as being expressly outside the power of the federal government." - Thomas Paine Redux
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[Quote No.31660] Need Area: Friends > General
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater
1964 U.S. Republican Convention Acceptance Speech.
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[Quote No.31662] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is time to cut through the underbrush of detail and face up to the basic question in this issue of state help versus self-help. What kind of society do we want? One of independent self-reliant citizens, prepared to take care of themselves and their families, asking from the state only to leave them alone and get off their backs? Or a society of government pensioners, willing to sign away their political and economic liberty in exchange for ever bigger handouts? Which is the more desirable type of citizen? [Which is the more likely to strive through the inevitable hardships in life to live up to their potential for the good of themselves, their loved ones and their fellow citizens? They are important questions because your answers should guide the way you vote in political elections and therefore will help to create the world you and your children live in.]" - William Henry Chamberlin
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[Quote No.31675] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Poem:]
The heart benevolent and kind,
The most resembles God.
" - Robert Burns
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[Quote No.31679] Need Area: Friends > General
"We gain freedom when we have paid [and keep paying] the full price..." - Rabindranath Tagore
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[Quote No.31681] Need Area: Friends > General
"[It is better to find a way to resolve a conflict without lawyers if possible. Or else you may wind up like the farmers in the proverb:] Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by the lawyer." - Hebrew Proverb
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[Quote No.31682] Need Area: Friends > General
"Laws control the lesser man; right conduct controls the greater one." - Chinese Proverb
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[Quote No.31683] Need Area: Friends > General
"Laws without punishment are like bells with no clackers." - Czech Proverb
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[Quote No.31684] Need Area: Friends > General
"A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit." - French Proverb
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[Quote No.31685] Need Area: Friends > General
"Doctors purge the body, ministers the conscience, lawyers the purse." - German Proverb
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[Quote No.31686] Need Area: Friends > General
"A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit." - German Proverb
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[Quote No.31699] Need Area: Friends > General
"In a Social Democracy [which as a government philosophy subtly usurpes the primary power and responsibility for a person's life outcomes from each individual - rather than just providing the opportunity for a better life that the individual must then either take advantage of or not, as provided by capitalism] with a fiat currency [which means the government's desire to 'help' through spending is not backed or restrained by anything like gold reserves, etc, other than the government's ability to tax the future incomes of its citizens, borrow and print money], all roads lead to inflation [and ever more government power with ever less personal responsibility and freedom to the long-term detriment of character and capacity.]" - Bill Fleckenstein
U.S financial commentator.
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[Quote No.31707] Need Area: Friends > General
"If more of us looked after ourselves and our neighbour and families instead of looking to government to 'do something' the world would be a lot better off." - Dan Denning
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[Quote No.31712] Need Area: Friends > General
"I am [decent and] free only so far as I recognize the humanity and respect the liberty of all the men [and women] surrounding me." - M.A. Bakunin
'Dieu et l’etat' [1882]
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[Quote No.31717] Need Area: Friends > General
"Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in." - Theodore Parker
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[Quote No.31735] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Even governments that espouse liberty, like the U.S.A., do not always live up to those ideals and for that reason the people must be forever vigilant to restrict and control the power that government has.] The facts about the gross violations of individual liberty that have been championed by U.S. presidents almost since the beginning, for example – John Adams’s Sedition Acts, Andrew Jackson’s genocidal treatment of the American Indians, Abraham Lincoln’s military conscription (to say nothing of his suspension of habeas corpus and his imprisonment of newspaper editors who dared to disagree with his prosecution of the Civil War), William McKinley’s brutal suppression of the independence movement in the Philippines after the Spanish American War, Franklin Roosevelt’s order to round up American citizens of Japanese ancestry and imprison them in concentration camps [to name just a few] – are any of these inconvenient facts likely to be selected for inclusion in a textbook based on the 'commonly shared principle' of the saintliness of the U.S. government? [But they should be, so that people learn not to so trust their leaders and government that evil can be done, with the power their votes gave and in their name. Only in this way will we get the good governments we deserve.]" - Jeff Riggenbach
'An Introduction to Revisionism: The Art of History' [2009].
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[Quote No.31738] Need Area: Friends > General
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else." - Euripides
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[Quote No.31741] Need Area: Friends > General
"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's [birth-] rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of force against legally disarmed victims." - Ayn Rand
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[Quote No.31742] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I am here to help." - Ronald Reagan
U.S. president
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[Quote No.31747] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Dubious] Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument [rationale] of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. [Therefore, it should be carefully scrutinised before believed.]" - William Pitt
Speech in the House of Commons, November 18, 1783.
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[Quote No.31759] Need Area: Friends > General
"An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind." - John Ruskin
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[Quote No.31760] Need Area: Friends > General
"The foundation of piety is self-restraint..." - Sextus
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[Quote No.31762] Need Area: Friends > General
"Misuse of government power, particularly in times of stress, has brought suffering to humanity in all ages about which we have authentic history. Some of the world's noblest and finest men have suffered ignominy and death for no crime — unless unorthodoxy is a crime. Even enlightened Athens had its victims such as Socrates. Because of the same kind of bigotry, Jesus, the great Dissenter, was put to death on a wooden cross. The flames of inquisitions all over the world have warned that men endowed with unlimited government power, even earnest men, consecrated to a cause, are dangerous." - Hugo L. Black
From his book, 'The Bill of Rights', (1960).
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[Quote No.31769] Need Area: Friends > General
"Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing. Human beings are not competent to exercise it with discretion... There is no power on earth so worthy of honor in itself, or clothed with rights so sacred, that I would admit its uncontrolled and all-predominant authority. When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on any power whatever, be it called a people or a king, an aristocracy or a republic, I say there is the germ of tyranny, and I seek to live elsewhere, under other laws." - Alexis de Tocqueville
From his book, 'Democracy in America', (1835).
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[Quote No.31774] Need Area: Friends > General
"He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow." - Spanish Proverb
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[Quote No.31775] Need Area: Friends > General
"No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it." - Winston Churchill
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[Quote No.31778] Need Area: Friends > General
"As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money. [Nothing could be further from the truth, because now not only must you repay the money, but you must pay interest on it as well.]" - Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S. President
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[Quote No.31786] Need Area: Friends > General
"There's nothing new about governments manipulating the media in an attempt to influence the public's reaction to a budget [or anything else for that matter. Therefore, if you do not wish to be hoodwinked, you will always need to take what they say skeptically and to search for vested interests, contrary opinion and conflicting data]." - Ross Gittins
Australian newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald's Economics Editor.
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[Quote No.31796] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not true that the legislator [politician] has an absolute power over our persons and our property since they pre-exist him, and his task is to surround them with guarantees. It is not true that the function of the law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our wills, our education, our opinions, our work, our trade, our talents, our recreation.
Its function is to prevent the rights of one person from interfering with rights of another in any of these matters." - Frederic Bastiat
From his book, 'The Law', published 1850.
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[Quote No.31807] Need Area: Friends > General
"The American [or, for that matter, any freedom loving] people will never knowingly adopt socialism [and its reduced personal freedom and responsibility in favour of paternalistic government power]. But under the name of 'liberalism' [and an ever growing sense of entitlement, at someone else's expense administered by the government, rather than self-reliance] they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation [with all the personal and economic restrictions that entails], without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas
(six-time U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate), Speech [1944]
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[Quote No.31808] Need Area: Friends > General
"The 19th century French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville pointed out that there are essentially two grand themes around which political life can be organized... equality or liberty. Individuals knowing their own circumstances and abilities usually support whichever they feel will benefit them, and those they love, the most in the future." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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