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[Quote No.36772] Need Area: Friends > General
"He that, in the state of nature, would take away the freedom that belongs to any one in that state, must necessarily be supposed to have a design to take away every thing else, that freedom being the foundation of all the rest; as he [politician, political party or government] that, in the state of society, would take away the freedom belonging to those of that society or commonwealth, must be supposed to design to take away from them every thing else, and so be looked on as in a state of war." - John Locke
'The Second Treatise of Civil Government', 1690.
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[Quote No.36773] Need Area: Friends > General
"Willing war means willing all the evils that are organically bound up with it." - Randolph Bourne
'A War Diary', September 1917.
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[Quote No.36774] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau
'Walden', 1854.
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[Quote No.36775] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is manifestly contrary to the interest of the consumers to prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities up to the limit to which the public approves of their conduct of business by buying their products. Here again, the issue is who should be supreme, the consumers or the government? In the unhampered market the behavior of consumers, their buying or abstention from buying, ultimately determines each individual's income and wealth. Should one vest in the government the power to overrule the consumer's choices?" - Ludwig von Mises
Famous economist, philosopher and author. From his book, 'Human Action', published 1949.
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[Quote No.36776] Need Area: Friends > General
"Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government. Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every heart." - Justice Robert H. Jackson
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[Quote No.36778] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Be careful about foreign wars and 'security interventions':] Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" - George Washington
US President. From his 'Farewell Address', September 17, 1796.
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[Quote No.36779] Need Area: Friends > General
"For in the last analysis, the thought and [free] conscience of the individual man are the only thought and conscience there are.... There is, in literal truth, no public mind: there are only the minds of the persons composing the public. There is no public conscience; there are only their several consciences. Dry these functions up, or bind the life out of them, and all the mental and moral life of the public is stopped at its source [and Democracy becomes a farce]." - William Ernest Hocking
'The Lasting Elements of Individualism', 1937.
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[Quote No.36780] Need Area: Friends > General
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of the Roman decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggles and failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, and consuming wars." - Will Durant
Famous historian, philosopher and writer. Quoted from his book, 'Caesar and Christ -(The Story of Civilization III)', published in 1944.
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[Quote No.36781] Need Area: Friends > General
"The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out." - Albert Jay Nock
'Journal of Forgotten Days', May 28, 1934.
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[Quote No.36782] Need Area: Friends > General
"[I]s it 'isolationism' to doubt the wisdom of bombing Libya [and becoming entangled in their civil war], a country that the president’s own secretary of defense admits isn’t 'a vital interest of the United States' or to think minding your own business abroad is better than minding other peoples’ business?" - Gene Healy
'AEI on the Spectre of 'Isolationism'.', June 20, 2011.
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[Quote No.36783] 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 honor 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', 1919.
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[Quote No.36784] Need Area: Friends > General
"Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive, exploitative, parasitic, and hence profoundly antisocial. The State [whether fuedal warlord, King or Queen or self-serving government] is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race [as a whole and each individual], its liberty, happiness, and progress. [Therefore its citizen-endowed functions and powers should be strictly limited to only those activities that are just and that individuals can't do for themselves, not continually increased at the expense of individual freedom and responsibility.]" - Murray N. Rothbard
'Reason', March 1974.
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[Quote No.36785] Need Area: Friends > General
"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat
'The State', 1848.
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[Quote No.36787] Need Area: Friends > General
"War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule. And we in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes." - Ernest Hemingway
'Notes on the Next War', 1935.
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[Quote No.36788] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Free market capitalism Vs Planned economies:] Society does not tell a man what to do and what not to do. There is no need to enforce cooperation by special orders or prohibitions. Non-cooperation penalizes itself. Adjustment to the requirements of society's productive effort and the pursuit of the individual's own concerns are not in conflict. Consequently no agency is required to settle such conflicts. The system can work and accomplish its tasks without the interference of an authority issuing special orders and prohibitions and punishing those who do not comply." - Ludwig von Mises
Famous economist, philosopher and writer. Quote from his book, 'Human Action', published 1949.
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[Quote No.36792] Need Area: Friends > General
"When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties they lead their country by a short route to chaos." - Robert Bolt
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[Quote No.36795] Need Area: Friends > General
"The highest result of education is tolerance." - Helen Keller
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[Quote No.36803] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every [political] institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival." - Dean William R. Inge
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[Quote No.36804] Need Area: Friends > General
"Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed." - Charles Caleb Colton
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[Quote No.36815] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers." - Lewis Mumford
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[Quote No.36818] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Be careful because] Evil is always possible." - Anne Rice
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[Quote No.36823] Need Area: Friends > General
"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity." - Edward Gibbon
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[Quote No.36826] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is the function of speech to free men [and women] from the bondage of irrational fears [and ignorance]." - Louis Dembitz Brandeis
(1856 - 1941)
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[Quote No.36863] Need Area: Friends > General
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1821 - 1881)
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[Quote No.36865] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890 - 1969)
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[Quote No.36870] Need Area: Friends > General
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel [of individual freedom] has been surrendered." - Archibald MacLeish
(1892 - 1982).
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[Quote No.36871] Need Area: Friends > General
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and [to our eternal shame] admit censorship." - E. M. Forster
(1879 - 1970).
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[Quote No.36872] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak." - Robert A. Heinlein
(1907 - 1988).
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[Quote No.36874] Need Area: Friends > General
"The search for human freedom can never be complete without [equal] freedom for women." - Betty Ford
(1918 - 2011).
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[Quote No.36878] Need Area: Friends > General
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous [US] citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." - Charles A. Beard
(1874 - 1948).
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[Quote No.36879] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is my living sentiment, and ...it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever." - Daniel Webster
Eulogy for John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, 2 August 1826.
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[Quote No.36880] Need Area: Friends > General
"I often warn people: Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.' " - George Carlin
(1937 - 2008).
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[Quote No.36885] Need Area: Friends > General
"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness." - Stewart I. Udall
(1920-2010), politician
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[Quote No.36886] Need Area: Friends > General
"Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us." - John Irving
(b. 1942), novelist
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[Quote No.36894] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." - J.K. Rowling
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[Quote No.36897] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians are opportunists. They are always looking to use whatever happens, good or bad, as an excuse to push their own ideological agenda, as the following quote exemplifies:] Don’t let a good crisis go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel
White House Chief of Staff to Democrat US President Barack Obama. He was frequently heard to repeat this opinion, during the depth of the U.S. financial crisis in early 2009.
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[Quote No.36899] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Legal contracts usually have sections of 'fine print'. It is not sensible to gloss over or ignore these sections because as they say 'the devil is in the details' and...] Nothing in fine print is ever good news." - Andy Rooney
(1919 - ), American radio and TV writer and personality.
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[Quote No.36903] Need Area: Friends > General
"Too many people believe in force and politically driven punishment. They believe in the attitude of 'If you will not see the light then you will feel the heat'. It is more morally correct rather to focus on the inborn, inalienable right of individuals to be free to choose, but with all the information available so that it is a fully informed and therefore an intelligent decision about what is truly best for them in the long run. The right to freedom of expression is then the best way to influence people's choices rather than force." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.36914] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The struggle for Freedom is not easy...] These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph...What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." - Thomas Paine
'The American Crisis', No. 1, December 19, 1776.
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[Quote No.36915] Need Area: Friends > General
"A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed [including things critical for choosing a good government like ethics, law and economics]. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support." - Thomas Paine
'Rights of Man', 1792.
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[Quote No.36916] Need Area: Friends > General
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." - Thomas Paine
The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776
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[Quote No.36918] 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', 1776.
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[Quote No.36924] Need Area: Friends > General
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the
unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the
equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister during World War Two.
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[Quote No.36926] Need Area: Friends > General
"A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect." - E. M. Cioran
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[Quote No.36930] Need Area: Friends > General
"Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life." - Epictetus
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[Quote No.36933] Need Area: Friends > General
"Civility costs nothing!" - Proverb
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[Quote No.36936] Need Area: Friends > General
"I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890 – 1969), a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961.
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[Quote No.36942] Need Area: Friends > General
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; [and] you will go far." - Theodore Roosevelt
US President
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[Quote No.36950] Need Area: Friends > General
"War does not decide who is right, but who is left." - George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
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[Quote No.36951] Need Area: Friends > General
"When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate." - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
(1613 - 1680)
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