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[Quote No.33660] Need Area: Friends > General
"When government doesn't recognise its own effective limitations, and tries to be and do all things for people, not only does it disempower and diminish its own citizens, it sets itself up to fail and be despised by those it promised to help for over-promising and under-delivering." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.33674] Need Area: Friends > General
"[There is a serious danger of making bad situations worse when people rely too much on help from big governments - i.e. socialist:] It's hard to feel sorry for the 'Yes We Can' candidate, who got the job by stoking the juvenile expectation that there's a presidential [government] solution to everything from natural disasters to spiritual malaise. But the adults among us ought to worry about a political culture [voting citizens] that reacts to every difficulty by screaming 'Save us, Superpresident!' ...[Unfortunately] the unreflective cry 'Do something!' usually results in policies that follow the logic immortalized in the BBC comedy 'Yes, Minister': 'Something must be done. This is something. Therefore we must do it!' [Whether it is the right thing to do, at the right time, is not important to these foolish politicians. The citizens demand that they do something. They therefore must be seen to be doing something or they will suffer politically! If it turns out to be wrong later, as it usually does, they believe they will be able to spin the blame elsewhere and distract the public with some other crisis.]" - Gene Healy
vice president at the Cato Institute and the author of 'The Cult of the Presidency'. This quote comes from an article that appeared in 'The DC Examiner' on June 1, 2010.
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[Quote No.33691] Need Area: Friends > General
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." - Lord Acton
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[Quote No.33692] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free." - Sahib, The Siri Singh
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[Quote No.33697] Need Area: Friends > General
"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time." - Lyndon B. Johnson
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[Quote No.33698] Need Area: Friends > General
"...declare peace upon the world, and win it." - Ely Culbertson
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[Quote No.33702] Need Area: Friends > General
"Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself [especially if yo go to 'war' against them]." - Richard M. Nixon
U.S. President
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[Quote No.33703] Need Area: Friends > General
"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause." - Baltasar Gracian
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[Quote No.33708] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Unlike some arrogant politicians] God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits." - William Paley
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[Quote No.33715] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he [or his opinion] is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation." - Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister
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[Quote No.33719] Need Area: Friends > General
"A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you." - Ramsey Clark
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[Quote No.33728] Need Area: Friends > General
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history be the answer to this question." - Thomas Jefferson
U.S. President, from the 'First Inaugural Address', March 4, 1801.
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[Quote No.33730] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow-creatures, and of acting in common with them. The right of association therefore appears to me almost as inalienable in its nature as the right of personal liberty. No legislator can attack it without impairing the foundations of society." - Alexis de Tocqueville
'Democracy in America', 1835.
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[Quote No.33731] Need Area: Friends > General
"In the exercise of this power of intermeddling with the private pursuits and individual occupations of the citizen, a Government may at pleasure elevate one class and depress another; it may one day legislate exclusively for the farmer, the next for the mechanic, and the third for the manufacturer, who all thus become the mere puppets of legislative cobbling and tinkering, instead of independent citizens, relying on their own resources for their prosperity. It assumes the functions which belong alone to an overruling Providence, and affects to become the universal dispenser of good and evil." - William Leggett
'True Functions of Government', 1834.
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[Quote No.33735] Need Area: Friends > General
"We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage." - F. A. Hayek
(1899 – 1992), Austrian Nobel laureate in economics, social scientist, political theorist and author.
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[Quote No.33736] Need Area: Friends > General
"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price." - Rabindranath Tagore
(1861 - 1941), Indian poet, philosopher
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[Quote No.33737] Need Area: Friends > General
"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather." - John D. MacDonald
(1916 - 1986), Novelist
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[Quote No.33754] Need Area: Friends > General
"Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it." - Virgil
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[Quote No.33770] Need Area: Friends > General
"Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality!" - William R(ichard) Allen
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[Quote No.33789] Need Area: Friends > General
"Little policy is made without fear. Risk-adverse politicians will play it safe, preferring the incremental to the substantial. But crisis focuses the mind, creating the conditions for policy changes [allowing them to 'strike while the iron is hot'] that would alienate voters in quieter times." - David Dodge
Former Bank of Canada governor. Quoted 2010.
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[Quote No.33794] Need Area: Friends > General
"The man [or woman] who has... a million dollars in property [or owns a significant business] has a much higher interest in the government [and the well-being of the country and its economy] than the man [or woman] who has little or no property [or business and staff to protect. Also, due to the competitive nature of success - which means they would have failed if incompetent, their ideas usually have merit and therefore deserve close scrutiny by all responsible politicians and bureaucrats.]" - Noah Webster
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[Quote No.33798] Need Area: Friends > General
"A [successful] civilization is built on what is required of men [and women], not on that which is provided for them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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[Quote No.33809] Need Area: Friends > General
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
" - Charles Evans Hughes
(1862 - 1948), American jurist and politician.
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[Quote No.33824] Need Area: Friends > General
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." - David Friedman
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[Quote No.33828] Need Area: Friends > General
"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity." - Keshavan Nair
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[Quote No.33843] Need Area: Friends > General
"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." - Gore Vidal
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[Quote No.33871] Need Area: Friends > General
"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run." - James Russell Lowell
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[Quote No.33873] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The lack of 'live and let live' attitudes and] The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies." - R. A. Pinker
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[Quote No.33874] Need Area: Friends > General
"Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor." - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.33877] Need Area: Friends > General
"The basis of effective government is [deserved, not deceived] public confidence." - John F. Kennedy
U.S. President
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[Quote No.33878] Need Area: Friends > General
"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it." - Jean Baudrillard
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[Quote No.33883] Need Area: Friends > General
"Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong." - German Proverb
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[Quote No.33890] Need Area: Friends > General
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." - Thomas Paine
'Common Sense', February 14, 1776.
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[Quote No.33891] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom, as people enjoyed it in the democratic countries of Western civilization in the years of the old liberalism’s triumph, was not a product of constitutions, bills of rights, laws, and statutes. Those documents aimed only at safeguarding liberty and freedom, firmly established by the operation of the market economy, against encroachments on the part of officeholders. No government and no civil law can guarantee and bring about freedom otherwise than by supporting and defending the fundamental institutions of the market economy. Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter." - Ludwig von Mises
'Human Action', 1949.
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[Quote No.33892] Need Area: Friends > General
"For more than six hundred years-that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 - there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such law." - Lysander Spooner
'An Essay on Trial by Jury', 1852.
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[Quote No.33893] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism." - Ludwig von Mises
'Nation, State, and Economy', 1919.
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[Quote No.33894] Need Area: Friends > General
"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind." - Thomas Paine
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[Quote No.33895] Need Area: Friends > General
"At this late date, however, it is difficult to imagine how [the U.S.] Congress, much like the Roman senate in the last days of the republic, could be brought back to life and cleansed of it endemic corruption. Failing such a reform, Nemesis, the goddess of retribution and vengeance, the punisher of pride and hubris, waits impatiently for her meeting with us." - Chalmers Johnson
'The Sorrows of Empire', 2004.
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[Quote No.33896] Need Area: Friends > General
"Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." - Henry St. George Tucker
'Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England', 1768.
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[Quote No.33897] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best on one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done." - William Graham Sumner
'What Social Classes Owe to Each Other', 1883.
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[Quote No.33902] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Beware political spin doctors and the politicians they advise. For when truth is perverted, informed choice, freedom and democracy are 'null and void'.] As every magician [and spin doctoring politician] who has ever lived knows, illusions create our world.
Even David Copperfield himself is willing to admit that 'real' magical powers are the stuff in the best-selling Harry Potter novels.
Copperfield explains that what he does is nothing more than a masterfully performed mirage which, when done properly, can make you believe that the Statue of Liberty has suddenly disappeared.
It works because the magician is a master manipulator.
He only lets you see what he wants you to see. By keeping other things hidden out of sight, the magician blurs the reality of an audience that deep down inside wants to believe in the possibilities.
The ruse complete, the audience leaves dumbfounded by the elaborate illusion. Reality has been transformed — at least temporarily.
It's only later that we find out that the statue hasn't moved an inch; that the lovely assistant hasn't really been sliced in half.
In short, it's a scam writ large. And the bigger the lie, the bigger the box office.
Buy hey, at least it's entertaining — if only for a few moments." - Steve Christ
Editor, 'Wealth Daily'.
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[Quote No.33928] Need Area: Friends > General
"Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies." - Henri Frederic Amiel
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[Quote No.33931] Need Area: Friends > General
"History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets." - Ludwig von Mises
'Omnipotent Government', 1944.
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[Quote No.33935] Need Area: Friends > General
"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; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything will avail it nothing." - John Stuart Mill
'On Liberty', 1859.
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[Quote No.33946] Need Area: Friends > General
"I am for equal justice, not social justice [where politically important people get special treatment]; I am for the creation of wealth, not the re-distribution of wealth [where hard-working Peter is robbed to pay[-off] Paul' because he's considered politically more important]." - Sabrina Pelotierro
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[Quote No.33958] Need Area: Friends > General
"Ever remain aware of your enemy's activities, secret or otherwise; never feel secure against his treachery against you, and consider constantly ways in which you may outwit or defeat him." - Kai Ka'us ibn-Iskander
Prince of Gurgan. Quoted from a book he wrote in 1082, 'The Qabus Nama', to advise his son about all aspects of life as a prince and a man.
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[Quote No.33959] Need Area: Friends > General
"Citizens should fear and then do all they can to remove from power politicians, bureaucrats and governments that show by their legislation and actions that they have a fundamental disrespect for private property and personal freedom." - Anon
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[Quote No.33960] Need Area: Friends > General
"The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic." - Jean Paul Richter
(1763 - 1825), German novelist.
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[Quote No.33964] Need Area: Friends > General
"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else." - Epictetus
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[Quote No.33973] Need Area: Friends > General
"The roots of violence are wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles." - Mahatma Gandhi
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