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[Quote No.46291] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read" - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
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[Quote No.46293] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism and personal freedom was not important to National Socialists:] ... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men." - Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator, October 7, 1933.
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[Quote No.46294] Need Area: Friends > General
"For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all..." - Aristotle
(384-322 BC) Greek philosopher. Quote from his work, 'Politics', 300 B.C.
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[Quote No.46295] Need Area: Friends > General
"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows." - Moliere
(1622-1673) Pen-name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the French playwright. Quote from his work, 'Le Misanthrope'.
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[Quote No.46300] Need Area: Friends > General
"The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it [and therefore the immediate, continuous, deliberate attempts to win the hearts and minds of the population through the media]." - Fran Lebowitz
'Social Studies', 1981.
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[Quote No.46302] Need Area: Friends > General
"All the evils that men cause to each other...are rooted in ignorance." - Maimonides
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[Quote No.46313] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work." - Michael Novak
American philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat
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[Quote No.46327] Need Area: Friends > General
"The natural effort of every individual to better
his own condition is so powerful that it is alone,
and without any assistance, not only capable
of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity,
but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions
with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations." - Adam Smith
(1723-1790) Scottish philosopher and economist
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[Quote No.46328] Need Area: Friends > General
"Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter -- by peaceful or revolutionary means -- into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it." - Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before, and immediately following, the French Revolution of February 1848. Quote from his work, 'The Law', published in 1848.
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[Quote No.46332] Need Area: Friends > General
"The poetry of [war] heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so." - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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[Quote No.46335] Need Area: Friends > General
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die." - Herbert Clark Hoover
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[Quote No.46337] Need Area: Friends > General
"In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent." - Socrates
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[Quote No.46338] Need Area: Friends > General
"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman." - Edmund Burke
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[Quote No.46343] Need Area: Friends > General
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
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[Quote No.46345] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Free market capitalism:] Privatization shrinks the power of the state and free enterprise enlarges the power of the people. The policies we introduced ... were fiercely opposed. Too many people and industries preferred to rely on easy subsidies rather than apply the financial discipline necessary to cut their costs and become competitive. But we understood that a system of free enterprise has a universal truth at its heart: to create a genuine market in a state you have to take the state out of the market." - Margaret Thatcher
British prime minister for more than 11 years.
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[Quote No.46351] Need Area: Friends > General
"What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man - to protect person and property - to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more." - Herbert Spencer
Quote from his work, 'The Proper Sphere of Government', published 1843.
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[Quote No.46359] Need Area: Friends > General
"A person who has reached a proper level of love for others will not feel hurt or anger by what they say to him. Love has the ability to cancel all wrongdoings. Although he personally will be meticulously careful to show respect to everyone, he realizes that the majority of people have not perfected their character traits, and so he does not have excessive expectations about others." - Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz [Chazon Ish]
(1878 – 1953), Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz popularly known by the name of his magnum opus 'Chazon Ish', was a Belarusian born Orthodox rabbi who later became one of the leaders of Haredi Judaism in Israel, where his final 20 years, from 1933 to 1953, were spent. [Chazon Ish - Emunah Ubitochon 1:11,15 ]
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[Quote No.46364] Need Area: Friends > General
"The greatest resource of all is Man. What government has to do is to set the framework for human talent to flourish." - Margaret Thatcher
British Prime Minister. Quote from 'Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World', (2002).
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[Quote No.46372] Need Area: Friends > General
"Margaret Thatcher... dared to expose statism as the senseless, dehumanizing cult that it is. She rhetorically ripped the velvet glove from the iron fist and spoke of welfare-state socialism as a wolf in sheep’s clothes." - Lawrence W. Reed
April 18, 2013. [http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/ugliness-from-ugly-ideas#ixzz2R78n0vvx ]
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[Quote No.46373] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Non-self-defence force and] Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
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[Quote No.46385] Need Area: Friends > General
"A man who is feared to his face is hated behind his back." - George Horace Lorimer
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[Quote No.46388] Need Area: Friends > General
"[War and politics are the organisation of prejudices and therefore potentially for a time...] The enemy of my enemy is my friend." - Arabian Proverb
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[Quote No.46399] Need Area: Friends > General
"The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground." - Sir Thomas Overbore
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[Quote No.46405] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you treat people right they will treat you right -- ninety percent of the time." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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[Quote No.46408] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is not perhaps in human affairs anything so unaccountable as the indignity and cruelty with which the far greater part of mankind suffer themselves to be used under pretence of government. For some men falsely persuading themselves that bad governments are advantageous to them, as most conducing to gratify their ambition, avarice, and luxury, set themselves with the utmost art and violence to procure their establishment: and by such men almost the whole world has been trampled underfoot, and subjected to tyranny, for want of understanding by what means and methods they were enslaved. For though mankind take great care and pains to instruct themselves in other arts and sciences, yet very few apply themselves to consider the nature of government, an enquiry so useful and necessary both to magistrate and people. Nay, in most countries the arts of state being altogether directed either to enslave the people, or to keep them under slavery; it is become almost everywhere a crime to reason about matters of government. But if men would bestow a small part of the time and application which they throw away upon curious but useless studies, or endless gaming, in perusing those excellent rules and examples of government which the ancients have left us, they would soon be enabled to discover all such abuses and corruptions as tend to the ruin of public societies. It is therefore very strange that they should think study and knowledge necessary in everything they go about, except in the noblest and most useful of all applications, the art of government." - Andrew Fletcher
A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militias [1698].
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[Quote No.46409] Need Area: Friends > General
"Should a robber break into my house, and with a dagger at my throat make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title? Just such a title, by his sword, has an unjust conqueror, who forces me into submission. The injury and the crime is equal, whether committed by the wearer of a crown, or some petty villain. The title of the offender, and the number of his followers, make no difference in the offence, unless it be to aggravate it. The only difference is, great robbers punish little ones, to keep them in their obedience; but the great ones are rewarded with laurels and triumphs, because they are too big for the weak hands of justice in this world, and have the power in their own possession, which should punish offenders." - John Locke
The Second Treatise of Civil Government [1690]
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[Quote No.46410] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not only under Nazi rule that police excesses are inimical to freedom. It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the [so-called] unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, the stealthily, and brazenly in the end." - Justice Felix Frankfurter
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[Quote No.46440] Need Area: Friends > General
"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country." - Lyn Nofziger [Franklyn C. Nofziger]
(1924-2006) American journalist, political consultant, author, Press Secretary for President Reagan.
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[Quote No.46449] Need Area: Friends > General
"Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country." - James Madison
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[Quote No.46458] Need Area: Friends > General
"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade." - James Barrie
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[Quote No.46459] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." - James Barrie
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[Quote No.46460] Need Area: Friends > General
"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?" - James Barrie
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[Quote No.46625] Need Area: Friends > General
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." - Anne Frank
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[Quote No.46716] Need Area: Friends > General
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. " - Maya Angelou
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[Quote No.46727] Need Area: Friends > General
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." - Adam Smith
Philosopher. Quote from his book, 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments'.
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[Quote No.46734] Need Area: Friends > General
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring temporary prosperity; both brings a permanent ruin." - Ernest Hemingway
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[Quote No.46746] Need Area: Friends > General
"In goodness there is all kinds of wisdom." - Euripides
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[Quote No.46747] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin." - Joseph Conrad
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[Quote No.46748] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The basic human social ethic is reciprocity:] As you have sown so shall you reap." - Marcus T. Cicero
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[Quote No.46756] Need Area: Friends > General
"The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished." - John Stuart Mill
(1806 - 1873)
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[Quote No.46770] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Independence and self-reliance:] Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." - Buddha
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[Quote No.46776] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Regardless of what power-seeking statist politicians may say...] The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market keeps economic power widely dispersed." - Milton Friedman
Famous economist
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[Quote No.46777] 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
Quote from 'Hands Off', published December 1924.
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[Quote No.46778] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech: Which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it he does not hurt and controul the Right of another; and this is the only Check which it ought to suffer, the only Bounds which it ought to know." - John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon [Cato]
These British writers used the pen-name Cato and therefore their letters were called 'Cato's Letters'. Quote from 'Cato's Letters' No. 15, February 4, 1720.
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[Quote No.46794] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians, statesmen and women and diplomats must remember:] Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests." - Lord Palmerston
British statesman
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[Quote No.46893] Need Area: Friends > General
"[In war and conflict...often] The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards." - T.H. White
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[Quote No.58114] Need Area: Friends > General
"The real division is not between conservatives [who wish for things to stay as they are] and revolutionaries [who wish for things to change for the better] but between authoritarians [who believe that government should have nearly all the importance, power and freedom] and libertarians [who believe that each individual should have nearly all the importance, power and freedom]." - George Orwell
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[Quote No.46919] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." - Alexander Hamilton
(1757-1804). Source: Federalist No. 22, December 14, 1787
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[Quote No.46920] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our legislators are not sufficiently appraised of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him; ... and the idea is quite unfounded, that on entering into society we give up any natural right." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President Source: letter to Francis W. Gilmer, June 7, 1816.
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[Quote No.46921] Need Area: Friends > General
"[History has taught beware the behavior of politicians at times of crisis because that becomes the excuse used to increase the government's and politicians' power at the expense of each individual citizen's freedom and independence.] ...you will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency [crisis] into a resource for accumulating force in the government." - James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President. Source: letter to Thomas Jefferson, March 14, 1794.
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