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[Quote No.50721] Need Area: Friends > General
"Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined!" - Maria Montessori
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[Quote No.50726] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Law:] That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved." - Benjamin Franklin
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[Quote No.50733] Need Area: Friends > General
"If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force!" - P.J. O'Rourke
All the Trouble in the World, 1994.
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[Quote No.50734] Need Area: Friends > General
"The State calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime." - Max Stirner
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[Quote No.50735] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Foreign policy, interventionism and war:] Here is the classic example of that kind of insincerity in both foreign and domestic affairs which permeates not only avowed motives but also probably the conscious motives of the actors themselves - that of a policy which pretends to aspire to peace but unerringly generates war, the policy of continual preparation for war [which even today co-ordinates politics with multi-national companies' interests and the military-industrial complex], the policy of meddlesome interventionism. There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not those of Rome, they were those of Rome's allies; and if Rome had no allies, then allies would be invented. When it was utterly impossible to contrive such an interest - why, then it was the national honour that had been insulted. The fight was always invested with an aura of legality. Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbors, always fighting for a breathing space. The whole world was pervaded by a host of enemies and it was manifestly Rome's duty to guard against their indubitably aggressive designs. They were enemies who only waited to fall on the Roman people..." - Joseph Schumpeter
The Sociology of Imperialism, 1918.
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[Quote No.50736] Need Area: Friends > General
"Lean liberty is better than fat slavery." - John Ray
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[Quote No.50737] Need Area: Friends > General
"I've always thought that the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The [political] right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The [political] left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash." - Bill Moyers
White House Press Secretary from 1965-67.
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[Quote No.50738] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are two great antagonistic principles at the root of all government [and all life] -- stability [conservation of what is good] and experiment [progression and improvement to make things better]." - John Wilson Croker
Irish statesman. Quote from an 1839 letter to a friend.
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[Quote No.50739] Need Area: Friends > General
"A party of order or stability [to conserve what is good], and a party of progress or reform [to improve on the present], are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. [For more than 200 years, the terms 'Left' and 'Right' have been used to describe these two orientations. The practice originated during the French Revolution (1789–99), when members of the national legislative assembly who opposed the monarchy and supported the revolution sat on the left side of the assembly hall, and those who opposed the revolution -- and therefore supported the status quo -- sat on the right.]
" - John Stuart Mill
'On Liberty', 1859.
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[Quote No.50742] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
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[Quote No.50748] Need Area: Friends > General
"The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect." - Jimmy Carter
(1924 - ) James Earl Carter, 39th US President. Source: Dallas Times-Herald, 26 April 1978.
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[Quote No.50758] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property.... The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave." - George Sutherland
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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[Quote No.50760] Need Area: Friends > General
"...The Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution recognizes no distinction between property rights and other human rights. The ban against unreasonable search and seizure covers 'persons, houses, papers, and effects,' without discrimination. No person may, without due process of law, be deprived of 'life, liberty or property'; all are equally inviolable. The right to trial by jury is assured in criminal and civil cases alike. Excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments are grouped in a single prohibition. The Founding Fathers realized that a man or woman without property rights - without the right to the product of his own labor - is not a free man.
These constitutional rights all have two characteristics in common. First, they apply equally to all persons. Second, they are, without exception, guarantees of freedom or immunity from governmental interference. They are not assertions of claims against others, individually or collectively. They merely say, in effect, that there are certain human liberties, including some pertaining to property, which are essential to free citizens and upon which the State shall not infringe.
Now what about the so-called human rights that are represented as superior to property rights? What about the 'right' to a job, the 'right' to a standard of living, the 'right' to a minimum wage or a maximum work week, the right to a 'fair' price, the 'right' to bargain collectively, the 'right' to security against the adversities and hazards of life, such as old age and disability?
The framers of the [U.S] Constitution would have been astonished to hear these things spoken of as rights. They are not immunities from governmental compulsion; on the contrary, they are demands for new forms of governmental compulsion. They are not claims to the product of one's own labor; they are, in some if not in most cases, claims to the products of other people’s labor.
These 'human rights' are indeed different from property rights, for they rest on a denial of the basic concept of property rights. They are not freedoms or immunities assured to all persons alike. They are special privileges conferred upon some persons at the expense of others. The real distinction is not between property rights and human rights, but between equality of protection from governmental compulsion on the one hand and demands for the exercise of such compulsion for the benefit of favored groups on the other!" - Paul L. Poirot
'Freeman' Editor, 1956–1987 [http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/9-human-rights-are-more-important-than-property-rights ]
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[Quote No.50765] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property:] At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man [or woman]...is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western [or eastern] society." - Robert F. Kennedy
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[Quote No.50787] Need Area: Friends > General
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." - Thomas Sowell
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[Quote No.50802] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Human rights, privileges and duties:]
‘I Have a Right!’ ... -
Lots of people make this claim without even thinking about the nature and source of rights. What are rights, and where do they come from?
The progressive or interventionist view is that so long as legislation is adopted under the rules of procedural due process, government creates and extinguishes rights. For example, [the US] Congress, by following the rules of legislative process outlined in the [US] Constitution, can create or extinguish a right to a job, a right to an education, or a right to food.
When progressives wish to expand the scope of government they often make a distinction between a ‘privilege’ and a ‘right.’ In this view, something is a privilege only if a person can acquire it through his own means; something is a right if government uses tax money or other coercive powers to provide it to individuals, irrespective of their means. Really important things, progressives say, ought to be rights, not privileges. Thus health care in America was once a privilege, but now it’s touted in both rhetoric and law as a right.
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote about ‘unalienable’ rights that all individuals have irrespective of government. According to him, all humans are ‘endowed’ with these rights by God. Some of Jefferson’s colleagues said that ‘nature’ endowed humans with rights - that is, that rights are inherent in human nature. In either case, rights are logically prior to government. Government has no legitimate authority to add to or subtract from such rights. Its role is to protect them.
If something is a human right in the Jeffersonian sense, it applies to all individuals merely by virtue of their humanity. If one person has such a right, all other humans must logically have the same right. One cannot, without self-contradiction, claim a human right for himself and deny it to others. To do so would be to admit that the right is not a ‘human’ right.
Moreover, it must be possible for all individuals to exercise the claimed right simultaneously without logical contradiction. If, when I exercise a right I have claimed, it is thereby impossible for someone else to exercise the identical right at the same time, my action implies that the alleged right does not inhere in human nature. My action implies that it is my right and not the right of the other person.
For example, suppose I claim a right to a job. If that claim means that I will be employed any time I wish to be (what else could it mean?), there must be some other person who has the duty to provide the job. But then that other person does not have the same right I have. My right is to be employed, his ‘right’ is to provide the job. My right creates a duty for him to undertake some positive action that he may not want to undertake. Notwithstanding that we both are human, his freedom of choice is subordinated to my freedom of choice.
Is there any job-related fundamental human right in the Jeffersonian sense? Yes, it is the right of all individuals to offer to buy or sell labor services at any terms they choose. I have a right to offer to sell my labor services at terms I like, and so do you. We all can exercise that right without thereby denying it to anyone else. I have a right to offer to buy (employ) the labor services of any other person at terms I like, and so do you. We can do so without thereby denying the right to anyone else. Those to whom you and I extend our offers are free to reject them. In exercising these rights we impose no duty to undertake any positive action on any other person.
Apply the same test to the right to food, the right to an education, and the right to health care. Are any of these fundamental human rights? If they are interpreted to mean that individuals will receive food, education, and health care no matter what other people want, they are not fundamental human rights. We all have a fundamental right to offer to buy or sell food, education services, and health care at any terms we like, but if we cannot find others who are willing to accept our offers, we have no right to force them to do so.
Apply the same test to the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment: freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. These are all fundamental human rights. We each can exercise free choice of religion without denying that right to others. Note, however, we have no right to join a religious organization that doesn’t want to accept us. We each can associate with any individuals or groups, but only so long as they are willing to associate with us. Exercising that right does not make it impossible for others to do the same. We each can say what we like without denying that same right to others. Note again, however, we have no right to force people to listen, or to provide us with a forum in which to speak. We each are free to try to assemble the necessary resources, by voluntary agreements with others, to publish a newspaper or a magazine (or a blog on the Web). But we have no right to force people to provide those necessary resources or to purchase or read our publications.
The progressive and the Jeffersonian views of rights are not only different, they are incompatible. Any time a right claimed by anyone imposes a duty on another to undertake positive action, the alleged right cannot possibly be exercised by both parties simultaneously without logical contradiction.
The progressive view of rights is often called the positivist view because such rights necessarily impose duties to undertake positive actions on others. It is part of a larger philosophy called legal positivism, which asserts that rights are whatever government says they are.
The Jeffersonian view of rights is often called the negative view because the only duty imposed on others by such rights is a duty to refrain from undertaking a particular action. It is a duty to refrain from interfering with others. Moreover, in this view, government itself is bound by the rights justly claimed by all individuals.
The next time you say, ‘I have a right,’ ask: ‘Who has the duty?’ If there is anyone who has a duty to do anything except refrain from interfering with you, ask: ‘On what grounds do I claim a right to subordinate that person’s will to mine?’
" - Charles W. Baird
Professor of Economics Emeritus, California State University at East Bay.
[http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/10-i-have-a-right ]
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[Quote No.50811] Need Area: Friends > General
"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?" - Lillian Hellman
(1905-1984) American playwright and memoirist
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[Quote No.50823] Need Area: Friends > General
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. [While people are not equal in talent and possessions they are equal in legal rights.]" - Aristotle
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[Quote No.50833] Need Area: Friends > General
"One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say:
That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through." - Sir Francis Bacon
(1561-1626) Philosopher, British Lord Chancellor.
Source: 1625.
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[Quote No.50837] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The general public should beware crises as excuses for government opportunism and propaganda:] You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do [i.e. get away with - get enough political support and legal authority to do] before..." - Rahm Emanuel
Nov. 19, 2008. He went on to serve as Democratic President Obama's White House Chief of Staff.
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[Quote No.50838] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
'A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays'
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[Quote No.50859] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole aim of practical politics [i.e. taking and using power] is to keep the populace alarmed [fearful] (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with [hype, disinformation and propaganda about] an endless series of hobgoblins, [nearly] all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.50860] Need Area: Friends > General
"The jaws of [government political] power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing." - John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Quote from
1765.
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[Quote No.50861] Need Area: Friends > General
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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[Quote No.50864] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Human birth-rights:] Kings or parliaments [government, politicians, lawyers, police and soldiers] could not give the rights essential to happiness... They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives." - John Dickinson
(1732-1808) signed the US Constitution and a member of the Continental Congress, 1766. Source: 'An Address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados', 1766.
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[Quote No.50865] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859) French historian
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[Quote No.50866] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual." - Walter E. Williams
(1936 - ) Columnist and Professor of Economics at George Mason University.
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[Quote No.50867] Need Area: Friends > General
"Occupants of public offices [politicians, bureaucrats, judiciary, police and military] love power and are prone to abuse it." - George Washington
(1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country'. Source: attributed.
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[Quote No.50868] Need Area: Friends > General
"In recent years we have witnessed numerous marches on Washington in which one group or another has demanded new 'rights.' Frequently, such rights have not meant freedom from state control, but rather entitlement to state action, protection, or subsidy. In the process of yielding to the 'will of the people' and creating new rights, the state [while damaging the freedom of another group] invariably enlarges itself and its bureaucracy. Each new right seems to demand a new agency to guarantee it, administer it, or deliver it." - John W. Whitehead
President of the Rutherford Institute. Source: 'The Second American Revolution'.
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[Quote No.50871] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism:] I believe the State exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of the state." - Julian Huxley
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[Quote No.50901] Need Area: Friends > General
"Modern public choice theories addressing the incentives of bureaucrats and the members of the congressional committees that oversee them teach us that everyone involved in the political process mainly is attuned to the goals of election or reelection to public office. One implication of those theories is that [government] politicians and bureaucrats face irresistible personal payoffs from catering to the demands of special-interest groups and much weaker incentives to pay attention to the amorphous interests of the public at large." - William Shughart
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[Quote No.50904] Need Area: Friends > General
"Here is the classic example of that kind of insincerity in both foreign and domestic affairs which permeates not only avowed motives but also probably the conscious motives of the actors themselves - that of a policy which pretends to aspire to peace but unerringly generates war, the policy of continual preparation for war, the policy of meddlesome interventionism. There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not those of Rome, they were those of Rome's allies; and if Rome had no allies, then allies would be invented. When it was utterly impossible to contrive such an interest - why, then it was the national honour that had been insulted. The fight was always invested with an aura of legality. Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbours, always fighting for a breathing space. The whole world was pervaded by a host of enemies and it was manifestly Rome's duty to guard against their indubitably aggressive designs. They were enemies who only waited to fall on the Roman people..." - Joseph Schumpeter
'The Sociology of Imperialism', 1918.
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[Quote No.50905] Need Area: Friends > General
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
Speech in the Virginia Convention, June 16, 1788.
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[Quote No.50906] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government propaganda:] Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." - Joseph Goebbels
German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
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[Quote No.50914] Need Area: Friends > General
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." - Edmund Burke
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[Quote No.50925] Need Area: Friends > General
"Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?" - Lillian Hellman
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[Quote No.50938] Need Area: Friends > General
"People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
(1926-2004) psychiatrist and author
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[Quote No.50940] Need Area: Friends > General
"The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others." - Carlo Dossi
(1849-1910) author and diplomat
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[Quote No.50941] Need Area: Friends > General
"[War and conflict:] The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis." - Thurgood Marshall
(1908-1993) US Supreme Court Justice
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[Quote No.50946] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Political strategy and propaganda:] The 'stalking horse' is a hunting technique that goes back thousands of years, where a hunter finds it much easier to get a drop on wild game by hiding behind an animal or a representation of an animal that the prey finds more familiar in its natural environment than a human. My favorite description of how the stalking horse technique works comes from the 1972 Robert Redford movie, 'Jeremiah Johnson', where the old trapper Bear Claw patiently explains to newbie trapper Jeremiah that they can walk behind their horses to get a good shot because 'elk don’t know how many feet a horse has'. Of course Bear Claw is right, and he and Jeremiah eat well that night.
[Jeremiah and Bear Claw's hunt elk in 'Jeremiah Johnson', 1972:-
--Jeremiah:
Wind’s right, but he’ll just run soon as we step out of these trees.
--Bear Claw:
Trick to it. Walk out on this side of your horse.
--Jeremiah:
What if he sees our feet?
--Bear Claw:
Elk don’t know how many feet a horse has!]...
When words are used for strategic effect [to deceive] rather than a genuine transmission of information [for the informed choice required for individual freedom and true democracy] you create a virtual stalking horse. This, of course, describes every use of words by every politician and every central banker. This is what Bernanke and Yellen and Draghi and Abe and Obama and Merkel mean when they refer to communication policy. Communication policy is the strategic use of words to shape perceptions and expectations. It’s a focus on how something is said as opposed to what is described. It’s a focus on form [style] rather than content [substance], on truthiness [believable fraud] rather than [unmitigated] truth. It’s why authenticity is as rare as a unicorn in the public world today. [As Aeschylus (525 – 456 BC) said, 'In war, truth is the first casualty.' Forewarned is forearmed!]" - Ben Hunt
[http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-22/authenticity-rare-unicorn-todays-politically-motivated-markets ]
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[Quote No.50974] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Political propaganda:] To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
" - Gore Vidal
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[Quote No.50975] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Enlightened self-interest acknowledges that...] No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.
" - Gore Vidal
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[Quote No.50976] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
" - Gore Vidal
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[Quote No.50999] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government deficits - where government borrows in order to spend more than it gets in tax and other revenue:] I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution... taking from the federal government the power of borrowing." - Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States.
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." - Philo of Alexandria
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[Quote No.51004] Need Area: Friends > General
"Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence [in the forms of force or fraud]!" - John Foster Dulles
(1888-1959) U.S. Secretary of State (1953-59)
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"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
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[Quote No.51006] Need Area: Friends > General
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
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"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts: the right to bear arms...] The most foolish mistake we [the Nazi government] could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order." - Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator. Source: April 11, 1942, 'Hitler's Table-Talk at the Fuehrer's Headquarters 1941-1942', Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaeum Verlag, Bonn, 1951).
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"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end." - Lord Acton
(1834-1902), [John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton] First Baron Acton of Aldenham. Source: 'The History of Freedom', 1907.
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