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[Quote No.32151] Need Area: Friends > General
"A democratic government that respects no limits on its own power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect." - James Bovard
'Attention Deficit Democracy', 2006.
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[Quote No.32154] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you
want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else." - Chinese Proverb
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[Quote No.32174] Need Area: Friends > General
"The dew of compassion is a tear." - Lord Byron
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[Quote No.32175] Need Area: Friends > General
"When the rich wage war it is the poor who die." - Jean-Paul Sartre
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[Quote No.32176] Need Area: Friends > General
"[All politicians should remember...] The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust." - Marcus T. Cicero
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[Quote No.32183] Need Area: Friends > General
"The danger of [an over-interventionist government] minding people's business is twofold. First, there is the danger that a man may leave his business unattended to; and, second, there is the danger of an impertinent interference with another's affairs. The 'friends of humanity' almost always run into both dangers." - William Graham Sumner
'What Social Classes Owe to Each Other' [1883].
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[Quote No.32189] Need Area: Friends > General
"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations." - Charles Richter
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[Quote No.32191] Need Area: Friends > General
"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity." - Lord Acton
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[Quote No.32193] Need Area: Friends > General
"To forget a wrong [and the person/s involved] is the best revenge." - Italian Proverb
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[Quote No.32195] Need Area: Friends > General
"A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety. [But be aware that it could all be a facade in order to lull you into a false sense of security and to trust him so he can take advantage of you, your friends or others as history has unfortunately shown so often!]" - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.32196] Need Area: Friends > General
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." - Charles de Gaulle
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[Quote No.32213] Need Area: Friends > General
"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time." - C. S. Lewis
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[Quote No.32215] Need Area: Friends > General
"What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it." - C. J. Weber
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[Quote No.32236] Need Area: Friends > General
"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes." - Daniel Defoe
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[Quote No.32239] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose." - John Kenneth Galbraith
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[Quote No.32240] Need Area: Friends > General
"A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was." - Joseph Hall
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[Quote No.32273] Need Area: Friends > General
"From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own." - Carl Schurz
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[Quote No.32282] Need Area: Friends > General
"A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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[Quote No.32283] Need Area: Friends > General
"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor." - Albert Einstein
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[Quote No.32284] Need Area: Friends > General
"Got a problem? Just give the government a great deal more power [and usually more of its citizens' money through increased taxes], and our friendly, competent rulers will take care of everything. I shudder to think that columnists may actually get paid for spouting such childish twaddle [that's so contrary to common-sense and historical experience]." - Robert Higgs
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[Quote No.32285] Need Area: Friends > General
"Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people. They fix, too, for the people the principles of their political creed." - Thomas Jefferson
Letter to Joseph Priestley, 1802.
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[Quote No.32286] Need Area: Friends > General
"In a constitutional democracy, persons owe loyalty to the constitution rather than the government." - James Buchanan
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[Quote No.32294] Need Area: Friends > General
"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty." - Norman Douglas
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[Quote No.32328] Need Area: Friends > General
"Question: Which is the main pitfall a spiritual aspirant should be guarded against when he is walking on the path of God-realization? Answer: That is spiritual pride due to a conceited consciousness of his progress on the path..." - Swami Ramdas
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[Quote No.32356] Need Area: Friends > General
"Beware the politician, who in the name of the 'weak', champions the need for more government power. Almost without exception this mind-set does not believe in the potential of the 'weak' to manage their own lives, either individually or collectively. Rather they believe in a best-and-the-brightest, centralized mentality, usually placing themselves, god-like, there with that power. Bigger is better, and government at every level, but especially at the highest level, has to make the way. They believe that individuals cannot be allowed the freedom to run their own lives, but they are politically astute enough to know that if they don't explicitly express this belief, the 'weak' will often happily, even democratically, give away ever more of the freedom that is every human's birthright and fight anyone who, believing in everyone's potential, tries to reinstate it. Unfortunately this naive belief that someone else can better their lives, rather than themselves, belies the history of the world, but the paternalistic similarity regularly fools them. Throughout the past and even more in the future, self-determining individual freedom and the wisdom and courage to use it responsibly will be vital to leading a meaningful, satisfying life." - A Libertarian
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[Quote No.32373] Need Area: Friends > General
"Constitutions are formed to deter... the governors from tyranny." - James Madison
Quoted from 'The Federalist'.
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[Quote No.32394] Need Area: Friends > General
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. [As they say 'perception is reality', especially in politics, which is in large part the art of managing voters by managing their perceptions even more than their reality.]" - Hubert H. Humphrey
(1911 – 1978), served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States.
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[Quote No.32396] Need Area: Friends > General
"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor." - Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S. Vice President
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[Quote No.32397] Need Area: Friends > General
"It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." - Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S Vice President
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[Quote No.32398] Need Area: Friends > General
"To know how to disguise [bad things] is the knowledge of kings [and politicians]." - Cardinal De Richelieu
(1585 – 1642), French clergyman, noble, and statesman. He was often known by the title of the French King's 'Chief Minister' or 'First Minister.' As a result, he is considered to be the world's first Prime Minister, in the modern sense of the term.
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[Quote No.32404] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians and others that consider that a nanny state and increased welfare will solve the world's problems rather than the individuals themselves becoming more capable should remember that...] The ultimate result of shielding men [and women] from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." - Herbert Spencer
'Essays', 1891.
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[Quote No.32405] Need Area: Friends > General
"A wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government...." - Thomas Jefferson
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801.
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[Quote No.32408] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice." - Henry David Thoreau
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[Quote No.32409] Need Area: Friends > General
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with [the dark temptations of unreasonable selfishness within] ourselves." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
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[Quote No.32410] Need Area: Friends > General
"[There is a problem with the welfare state - especially when welfare goes to those who have contributed to their own problems or to those that have the opportunity to fix the problems themselves.] This is the problem economists call 'moral hazard.' If you protect people from their own excesses they will become even more excessive. On the other hand, if they have to pay for their errors, they'll be quicker to correct them. [or better still avoid them in the first place. Also if you help those who could help themselves you encourage and increase their helplessness and sense of entitlement to help and their lack of respect for themselves and their own capability.]" - Bill Bonner
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[Quote No.32429] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness." - Han Suyin
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[Quote No.32440] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every moment of resistance to temptation [and selfish unkindness] is a victory." - Frederick W. Faber
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[Quote No.32445] Need Area: Friends > General
"The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." - William Wordsworth
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[Quote No.32446] Need Area: Friends > General
"Man must cease [listening to sociologists and politicians that encourage] attributing his problems to his [social and physical] environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility [and thereby become again the self-determining, empowered, free individual that is within his potential]." - Albert Schweitzer
(1875 – 1965), German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his philosophy of 'Reverence for Life'.
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[Quote No.32449] Need Area: Friends > General
"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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[Quote No.32451] Need Area: Friends > General
"A man has the right to dispose of his life and his property in any way he chooses, without interference from anyone else. A man has no right to dispose of any other man's life or property, no matter what his personal rationalizations may be. [If you agree with this statement for men and women, then you share the basic belief of Libertarians - the third largest political party in the United States of America and growing rapidly around the world as people see the ideologically-based fiscal incompetence of the welfare promoting political parties and the lack of social freedom from the others.]" - Robert Ringer
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[Quote No.32452] Need Area: Friends > General
"The [U.S.] Constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it [and its politicians and bureaucrats] come to dominate [rather than serve] our lives and our interests." - Patrick Henry
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[Quote No.32453] Need Area: Friends > General
"[A fair legal system and wisdom dictates that when punishment is considered, that if their is doubt, beyond reasonable doubt in criminal cases and beyond the balance of probability in civil cases,] It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one." - Voltaire
French philosopher and author. From his work, 'Zadig', published 1747.
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[Quote No.32463] Need Area: Friends > General
"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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[Quote No.32468] Need Area: Friends > General
"The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow." - Chinese Proverb
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[Quote No.32469] Need Area: Friends > General
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight." - Theodore Roosevelt
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[Quote No.32472] Need Area: Friends > General
"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. [War and want flings that facade aside.]" - Thomas B. Aldrich
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[Quote No.32480] Need Area: Friends > General
"Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law [and the basis of all just laws]." - Bible
Romans (ch. XIII, v. 10)
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[Quote No.32489] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The United States in 2009 is no longer the freest country in the world: This has significant implications for the GDP of the USA and the living standards of all Americans and therefore political ideology and economic policy and practice. Economic freedom around the world remains on the rise but it has declined notably in the U.S. since the year 2000, according to the 'Economic Freedom of the World: 2009 Annual Report', released by the Cato Institute in conjunction with the Fraser Institute of Canada. In 2000 the U.S. was ranked the 2nd-freest economy, but it has fallen to 6th place this year. 'The rule of law, government spending, and regulation are the areas where the United States saw the most troubling declines in its ratings this decade,' comments Cato scholar Ian Vasquez. Writing from Chile, which was ranked the 5th-freest country in the study, senior fellow Jose Pinera explains why his home country now has more economic freedom than the United States:]
In 1975, of 72 countries, Chile was No 71. How did this [going from the 71st to the 5th freest country] happen? The explanation lies in what I call the 'Chilean Revolution,' because it was as important and transformative to my country as the celebrated American Revolution that gave birth to the United States. The exceptional political circumstances of this period have obscured the fact that from 1975 to 1989 a true revolution took place in Chile, involving a radical, comprehensive, and sustained move toward economic and political freedom... This revolution not only doubled Chile’s historic rate of economic growth (to an average of 7% a year between 1984 and 1998), drastically reduced poverty (from 45% to 15%), and introduced several radical libertarian reforms that set the country on a path toward rapid development; but it also brought democracy, restored limited government, and established the rule of law. [These results again prove the benefits of libertarian social and economic policies to a country's economy and the living standards of its citizens if still more proof were needed.]" - Jose Pinera
Senior fellow of the American political and economic policy research and publication think-tank, the Cato Institute.
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[Quote No.32500] Need Area: Friends > General
"Mankind has a choice only between the unhampered market economy, democracy, and freedom on the one side, and socialism and dictatorship on the other side. A third alternative, an interventionist compromise, is not feasible... Should our civilization perish, it will not be because it is doomed, but because people refused to learn from theory or from history." - Ludwig von Mises
Famous Austrian economist. Quoted from his book 'Interventionism: An Economic Analysis'.
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