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[Quote No.47744] Need Area: Friends > General
"The end result of wisdom is... good deeds." - The Talmud
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[Quote No.47747] Need Area: Friends > General
"[If you are a statist, paternal politician or their follower you are at least partially pleased at every crisis because...] Every crisis offers you extra desired power." - William Moulton Marston
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[Quote No.47751] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals." - Ramsey Clark
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[Quote No.47762] Need Area: Friends > General
"No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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[Quote No.47772] Need Area: Friends > General
"Aware of the tendency of power to degenerate into abuse [and corruption], the worthies of our country have secured its independence by the establishment of a Constitution and form of government for our [U.S.] nation, calculated to prevent as well as to correct abuse." - Thomas Jefferson
Letter to Washington Tammany Society, 1809.
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[Quote No.47782] Need Area: Friends > General
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Quote No.47785] Need Area: Friends > General
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Quote No.47800] Need Area: Friends > General
"Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people,
living life in peace." - John Lennon
(1940-1980), musician. Some lyrics from his song, 'Imagine'.
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[Quote No.47802] Need Area: Friends > General
"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use." - Emily Post
(1872-1960), author and columnist
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[Quote No.47813] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Bad things do happen to good people. After all...] Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. [Bad luck can happen to anybody. But being good and moral reduces the likelihood of other good and moral people from feeling justified to punish you for your misdeeds or simply not care for you.]" - Shari R. Barr
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[Quote No.47818] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Social morality requires that individuals and groups do not engage in force or fraud. The reason being that force and fraud reduce others equal birth-right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness through freedom of choice and the knowledge and informed consent that that requires. Much of society's customs, religious more's and legal rules are designed to ensure this equal right against nature's selfish desire for each individual to put themselves or those they favour first. The following quote explores this further:]
Cheating [including fraud, lying and deception] is not limited to humans; it has been documented throughout the living world, wherever there is competition for limited resources. ... In an effort to better understand cheating, scientists have discovered that creativity, fear of loss and the observation of dishonest behavior can motivate cheating or make it more likely. ... In nature, cheating has evolved as a way for organisms to gain advantage over others without incurring the cost of effort. ...
One major manifestation of social intelligence is the ability to deceive. Tactical deception is widespread among primates. Ethologist Hans Kummer of the University of Zurich vividly described cheating behavior in hamadryas baboons in Ethiopia: female juveniles mate with juvenile males while concealing their actions from the alpha male by hiding behind rocks. Primatologist Frans de Waal of Emory University has documented examples of deception by chimpanzees living in captivity. In 2004 psychologists Richard W. Byrne of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and Nadia Corp, now at Keele University in England, showed that neocortex size predicts the degree to which primates practice deception. The bigger the neocortex in a species, the more individuals in that society use dishonest tactics for social manipulation.
Humans are surprisingly quick to cheat when the circumstances are conducive. In 2008 behavioral economist Dan Ariely of Duke University and his colleagues described what happened when they asked college students to solve math puzzles for cash rewards. When the researchers changed the experimental conditions such that the students assumed the examiner could not detect cheating, the average self-reported test score rose significantly. The researchers determined that the scores were not inflated by a few students who cheated a lot but rather by many students cheating a little.
Not everyone is equally likely to cheat, however. In 2011 Ariely and behavioral economist Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School reported that people who score higher on psychological tests of creativity are more apt to engage in dishonesty -- a connection that is perhaps not surprising considering that creativity and tactical deception are both products of the neocortex. Yet Gino and Ariely believe the two are not just anatomically correlated but causally connected. They submit that creative individuals are better at self-deception: they come up with more inventive rationalizations for cheating as a way of making themselves feel better about doing it. ... Ironically, the creativity and intelligence that we regard as distinctly human might have arisen alongside our ability to deceive. We are who we are because we cheat....
Cheating can breed more of the same if nothing puts a brake on the process. Once someone has overcome the initial barrier to cheating, subsequent hurdles to dishonest behavior may seem smaller and trivial to surmount. Ariely calls this response the 'what the hell' effect, as in 'what the hell, I already blew my diet, so I may as well have the dessert.' ... Another way that cheating can spread is through copycat behavior. Seeing someone else cheat without apparent consequences strongly encourages others to do the same. ... In 2011 psychologists Agata Blachnio and Malgorzata Weremko of Catholic University of Lublin in Poland described an experiment in which students took a spelling test in a room secretly fitted with a one-way mirror. A dictionary and a thesaurus were in the room, but the students were asked not to use them. Subjects were three times as likely to cheat when an assistant posing as a cheating student was also present. In fact, unchecked dishonesty can promote the perception that one must cheat to remain competitive.
Such observations have led Ariely to refer to cheating as 'infectious.' ... This kind of social contagion may help explain the high prevalence of cheating in relatively small groups of people. For example, 125 Harvard students were recently under investigation for cheating on the final examination in an introductory government course. (More than half these students were told to withdraw from school for up to a year as punishment.) It is statistically unlikely that nearly half the 279 students in that class are sociopaths given the low prevalence of sociopathy -- about 3 percent in males and 1 percent in females. A more plausible explanation is contagion. The widespread bending of the rules probably led students to conclude that collaborating with other students was okay." - Ferric C. Fang and Arturo Casadevall
Quote from the article, 'Why We Cheat', in 'Scientific America Mind', May/June 2013, pages 32-36.
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[Quote No.47835] Need Area: Friends > General
"Want Peace? Promote Free Trade:
Frederic Bastiat famously claimed that ‘if goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.’
Bastiat argued that free trade between countries could reduce international conflict because trade forges connections between nations and gives each country an incentive to avoid war with its trading partners. If every nation were an economic island, the lack of positive interaction created by trade could leave more room for conflict. Two hundred years after Bastiat, libertarians take this idea as gospel. Unfortunately, not everyone does. But as recent research shows, the historical evidence confirms Bastiat’s famous claim.
---To Trade or to Raid:
In ‘Peace through Trade or Free Trade?‘ professor Patrick J. McDonald, from the University of Texas at Austin, empirically tested whether greater levels of protectionism in a country (tariffs, quotas, etc.) would increase the probability of international conflict in that nation. He used a tool called dyads to analyze every country’s international relations from 1960 until 2000. A dyad is the interaction between one country and another country: German and French relations would be one dyad, German and Russian relations would be a second, French and Australian relations would be a third. He further broke this down into dyad-years; the relations between Germany and France in 1965 would be one dyad-year, the relations between France and Australia in 1973 would be a second, and so on.
Using these dyad-years, McDonald analyzed the behavior of every country in the world for the past 40 years. His analysis showed a negative correlation between free trade and conflict: The more freely a country trades, the fewer wars it engages in. Countries that engage in free trade are less likely to invade and less likely to be invaded.
---The Causal Arrow:
Of course, this finding might be a matter of confusing correlation for causation. Maybe countries engaging in free trade fight less often for some other reason, like the fact that they tend also to be more democratic. Democratic countries make war less often than empires do. But McDonald controls for these variables. Controlling for a state’s political structure is important, because democracies and republics tend to fight less than authoritarian regimes.
McDonald also controlled for a country’s economic growth, because countries in a recession are more likely to go to war than those in a boom, often in order to distract their people from their economic woes. McDonald even controlled for factors like geographic proximity: It’s easier for Germany and France to fight each other than it is for the United States and China, because troops in the former group only have to cross a shared border.
The takeaway from McDonald’s analysis is that protectionism can actually lead to conflict. McDonald found that a country in the bottom 10 percent for protectionism (meaning it is less protectionist than 90 percent of other countries) is 70 percent less likely to engage in a new conflict (either as invader or as target) than one in the top 10 percent for protectionism.
---Protectionism and War:
Why does protectionism lead to conflict, and why does free trade help to prevent it? The answers, though well-known to classical liberals, are worth mentioning.
First, trade creates international goodwill. If Chinese and American businessmen trade on a regular basis, both sides benefit. And mutual benefit disposes people to look for the good in each other. Exchange of goods also promotes an exchange of cultures. For decades, Americans saw China as a mysterious country with strange, even hostile values. But in the 21st century, trade between our nations has increased markedly, and both countries know each other a little better now. iPod-wielding Chinese teenagers are like American teenagers, for example. They’re not terribly mysterious. Likewise, the Chinese understand democracy and American consumerism more than they once did. The countries may not find overlap in all of each other’s values, but trade has helped us to at least understand each other.
Trade helps to humanize the people that you trade with. And it’s tougher to want to go to war with your human trading partners than with a country you see only as lines on a map.
Second, trade gives nations an economic incentive to avoid war. If Nation X sells its best steel to Nation Y, and its businessmen reap plenty of profits in exchange, then businessmen on both sides are going to oppose war. This was actually the case with Germany and France right before World War I. Germany sold steel to France, and German businessmen were firmly opposed to war. They only grudgingly came to support it when German ministers told them that the war would only last a few short months. German steel had a strong incentive to oppose war, and if the situation had progressed a little differently—or if the German government had been a little more realistic about the timeline of the war—that incentive might have kept Germany out of World War I.
Third, protectionism promotes hostility. This is why free trade, not just aggregate trade (which could be accompanied by high tariffs and quotas), leads to peace. If the United States imposes a tariff on Japanese automobiles, that tariff hurts Japanese businesses. It creates hostility in Japan toward the United States. Japan might even retaliate with a tariff on U.S. steel, hurting U.S. steel makers and angering our government, which would retaliate with another tariff. Both countries now have an excuse to leverage nationalist feelings to gain support at home; that makes outright war with the other country an easier sell, should it come to that.
In socioeconomic academic circles, this is called the Richardson process of reciprocal and increasing hostilities; the United States harms Japan, which retaliates, causing the United States to retaliate again. History shows that the Richardson process can easily be applied to protectionism. For instance, in the 1930s, industrialized nations raised tariffs and trade barriers; countries eschewed multilateralism and turned inward. These decisions led to rising hostilities, which helped set World War II in motion.
These factors help explain why free trade leads to peace, and protectionism leads to more conflict.
---Free Trade and Peace:
One final note: McDonald’s analysis shows that taking a country from the top 10 percent for protectionism to the bottom 10 percent will reduce the probability of future conflict by 70 percent. He performed the same analysis for the democracy of a country and showed that taking a country from the top 10 percent (very democratic) to the bottom 10 percent (not democratic) would only reduce conflict by 30 percent.
Democracy is a well-documented deterrent: The more democratic a country becomes, the less likely it is to resort to international conflict. But reducing protectionism, according to McDonald, is more than twice as effective at reducing conflict than becoming more democratic.
Here in the United States, we talk a lot about spreading democracy. We invaded Iraq partly to ‘spread democracy.’ A New York Times op-ed by Professor Dov Ronen of Harvard University claimed that ‘the United States has been waging an ideological campaign to spread democracy around the world’ since 1989. One of the justifications for our international crusade is to make the world a safer place.
Perhaps we should spend a little more time spreading free trade instead. That might really lead to a more peaceful world." - Julian Adorney
Foundation for Economic Education - 'The Freeman' magazine, October 15, 2013. [http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/want-peace-promote-free-trade#ixzz2ifP3Bk76 ]
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[Quote No.47845] Need Area: Friends > General
"Don't forget that pure democracy is a form of collectivism -- it readily sacrifices individual rights to majority wishes. Since it involves no constitutional bill of rights, or at least, no working and effective one, the majority-of-the-moment can and does vote away the rights of the minority-of-the-moment, even of a single individual. This has been called 'mob rule,' the 'tyranny of the majority' and many other pejorative names. It is one of the greatest threats to liberty, the reason why America's founding fathers wrote so much so disparagingly of pure democracy [and included a Bill of Rights that even the majority cannot deny any minority, including a minority of one]." - Bert Rand
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[Quote No.47846] Need Area: Friends > General
"The primary goal of collectivism -- of socialism in Europe and contemporary [rather than 'classical'] liberalism in America -- is to enlarge governmental supervision [and control] of individuals' lives. This [reduction in individual freedom to pursue their rights to 'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' and property] is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government." - George Will
Journalist. December 15, 2005.
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[Quote No.47847] Need Area: Friends > General
"A pure democracy ... can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority, and there is nothing [like a Bill of Rights that protects even the weakest minority's rights] to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party... Hence it is that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in thier deaths." - James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA and 4th US President. Source: James Madison, Federalist No. 10.
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[Quote No.47848] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Why a Bill of Rights to protect every one from a democratic majority abusing their 'rights' is a necessity to a moral, civilised society:] Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic." - Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
(1909-1999) Austrian Catholic nobleman and socio-political theorist
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[Quote No.47849] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny [especially of their society's minorities]." - Richard M. Ebeling
(1950- ) Author, Professor of Economics, Hillsdale College
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[Quote No.47850] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Censorship and propaganda:] In war, truth is the first casualty." - Aeschylus
(525-456 BC) Greek playwright
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[Quote No.47851] Need Area: Friends > General
"The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale." - John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
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[Quote No.47861] Need Area: Friends > General
"Your relationships can be made to increase in value by investing more time in them." - Brian Tracy
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[Quote No.47863] Need Area: Friends > General
"Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security!" - Norman Vincent Peale
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[Quote No.47864] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight." - Will Rogers
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[Quote No.47873] Need Area: Friends > General
"Refuse the evil, and choose the good!" - Bible
Isaiah 7:15
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[Quote No.47892] Need Area: Friends > General
"In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal [in their birth-rights], but he does not admit [as readily through his thought, word and deed] that he has no social inferiors." - Bertrand Russell
British philosopher
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[Quote No.47934] Need Area: Friends > General
"...it's not how other people treat you that makes you important and honorable. Rather, it's how you treat others." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
From his book, 'Building Your Self- image and the Self-image of Others', Chapter 2.
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[Quote No.47949] Need Area: Friends > General
"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire." - Dale Carnegie
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[Quote No.47963] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole aim of [power-hungry] practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [about a 'crisis'] and hence, clamorous to be led to safety [by a 'benevolent' political leadership, that needs more freedom and power for them and less for you to address the crisis]- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.47975] Need Area: Friends > General
"The majority, oppressing [using force, coercion or fraud]an individual [or other minority], is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source: Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816.
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[Quote No.47976] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is collectivism that is the unrealistic expression of utopian belief systems. In its worst form -- the state -- collectivism is the institutionalized exertion of violence to compel living beings to behave contrary to their natural self-interest inclinations. So strong are the motivations for individual preferences that the state must resort to attacks upon the very nature of life to satisfy the ambitions of those who see others as nothing more than resources to be exploited for such ends." - Butler D. Shaffer
Professor, Southwestern University School of Law
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[Quote No.47977] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom, individualism, and being yourself, so long as it doesn't hurt another's physical person or property:] Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men." - John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist. Source: 'On Liberty'.
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[Quote No.47986] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is of no consequence of what parents a man [or woman] is born, as long as he [or she] be a man [or woman] of merit." - Horace
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[Quote No.47996] Need Area: Friends > General
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: The thief doth fear each bush an officer." - William Shakespeare
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[Quote No.48003] Need Area: Friends > General
"The greatest threat to the future of our nation -- to our freedom -- is not foreign military aggression … but the growing dependence of the people on a paternalistic government. A nation is no stronger than its people and the best measure of their strength is how they accept responsibility. There will never be a great society unless the materialism of the welfare state is replaced by individual initiative and responsibility." - Ludwig von Mises
Quote from his book, 'Human Action', 1949.
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[Quote No.48015] Need Area: Friends > General
"It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world." - Will Durant
(1885-1981), historian.
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[Quote No.48049] Need Area: Friends > General
"Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?" - Walter Williams
He is a professor of economics at George Mason University, a syndicated columnist, a fill-in host for Rush Limbaugh and an author of eight books.
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[Quote No.48051] Need Area: Friends > General
"People who denounce [capitalism in the form of] the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What's more, they believe they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others." - Walter Williams
He is a professor of economics at George Mason University, a syndicated columnist, a fill-in host for Rush Limbaugh and an author of eight books.
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[Quote No.48055] Need Area: Friends > General
"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." - Albert Camus
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[Quote No.48062] Need Area: Friends > General
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." - John Locke
British philosopher
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[Quote No.48075] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly." - H. L. Mencken
(1880–1956)
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[Quote No.48080] Need Area: Friends > General
"Lawyers [are] operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass." - Bryant Quinn
Source: Newsweek, 9 October 1975
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[Quote No.48089] Need Area: Friends > General
"The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and [war] drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good [peaceful] citizen not to be silent." - Charles Eliot Norton
True Patriotism, 1898.
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[Quote No.48092] Need Area: Friends > General
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." - Jose Narosky
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[Quote No.48100] Need Area: Friends > General
"Anything the government [or any politician] tells you needs to be regarded with a heavy dose of skepticism." - Roger Stone
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[Quote No.48112] Need Area: Friends > General
"American Republic [and any democracy] will endure until the day Congress [government and politicians] discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money [fiscal deficits]." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.48113] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Here is an explanation of the danger with a democracy, were the government's power, size and spending is not strictly limited:] A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates [politicians] promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship." - Alexander Fraser Tytler
(1747-1813)
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[Quote No.48119] Need Area: Friends > General
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people.... [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and ... degeneracy of manners and of morals.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." - James Madison
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[Quote No.48120] Need Area: Friends > General
"But we are told that we need not fear; because those in power, being our representatives, will not abuse the powers we put in their hands. I am not well versed in history, but I will submit to your recollection, whether liberty has been destroyed most often by the licentiousness of the people, or by the tyranny of rulers.
I imagine, sir, you will find the balance on the side of tyranny. Happy will you be if you miss the fate of those nations, who, omitting to resist their oppressors, or negligently suffering their liberty to be wrested from them, have groaned under intolerable despotism!
Most of the human race are now in this deplorable condition; and those nations who have gone in search of grandeur, power, and splendor, have also fallen a sacrifice, and been the victims of their own folly. While they acquired those visionary blessings, they lost their freedom." - Patrick Henry
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[Quote No.48123] Need Area: Friends > General
"If a man makes himself a worm [for example by being criminal, coercive, violent or deceitful] he must not complain when he is trodden on." - Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
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[Quote No.48128] Need Area: Friends > General
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." - Aristotle
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[Quote No.48136] Need Area: Friends > General
"Children learn the fundamental principles of natural law at a very early age. Thus they very early understand that one child must not, without just cause, strike, or otherwise hurt, another; that one child must not assume any arbitrary control or domination over another; that one child must not, either by force, deceit, or stealth, obtain possession of anything that belongs to another; that if one child commits any of these wrongs against another, it is not only the right of the injured child to resist, and, if need be, punish the wrongdoer, and compel him to make reparation, but that it is also the right, and the moral duty, of all other children, and all other persons, to assist the injured party in defending his rights, and redressing his wrongs. These are fundamental principles of natural law, which govern the most important transactions of man with man. Yet children learn them earlier than they learn that three and three are six, or five and five ten. Their childish plays, even, could not be carried on without a constant regard to them; and it is equally impossible for persons of any age to live together in peace on any other conditions." - Lysander Spooner
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