Normando's Quotes

You can't save free markets by socialism, I don't know where this idea ever came from. You save free markets by promoting free markets and sound money and balanced budgets. The whole reason why nobody wants to address the real problem is, we're spending a trillion dollars a year overseas running an empire, and it's coming to an end. This country is bankrupt, and we won't admit it. Eventually though, the dollar will go bust, and we will bring our troops home, and we will live within our means, but we ought to do it sensibly, rather than waiting for the collapse of the dollar, and this is what we're doing, we're on the verge of destroying our dollar. And then, you think we have problems now, problems then will be a lot worse, it'd look like the Weimar Republic, or a third world nation. And a lot of people know that, and they're scared to death, but we don't need to be making the problem worse by just propping up everything with more government programs, more inflation, and more helicopters, it won't work.

– Ron Paul  Famous Quote

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs -- even when we benefit from them. I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

– Charles Koch  Famous Quote

The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.

– Jacob G. Hornberger  Famous Quote

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

– George Orwell  Famous Quote

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

– Paul William Bear Bryant  Famous Quote

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

– Grover Cleveland  Famous Quote

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

– James Buchanan  Famous Quote

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

– Ayn Rand  Famous Quote

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

– Karl Marx  Famous Quote

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

– Plutarch  Famous Quote

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

– Diane Sawyer  Famous Quote

A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.

– Sir Winston Churchill  Famous Quote

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.

– James Madison  Famous Quote

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

– Oscar Wilde  Famous Quote

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

– John James Audubon  Famous Quote

It is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work -- work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. ... We shall reflect the compassion that is so much a part of your makeup. How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, not reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory? ... We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each Inauguration Day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.

– Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

The fact is that there is a serious danger of this country becoming a pluto-democracy; that is, a sham republic with the real government in the hands of a small clique of enormously wealthy men, who speak through their money, and whose influence, even today, radiates to every corner of the United States.

– William Gibbs McAdoo  Famous Quote

I did not come here to guide lambs. I came here to awaken lions.

– Javier Milei  Famous Quote

In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

– Alexander Hamilton  Famous Quote

The American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also.

– David M. Potter  Famous Quote

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value. In a truly free society, any business that disrespects its customers will fail, and deserves to do so. The same should be true of any government that disrespects its citizens. The central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration is that you are incapable of running your own life, but those in power are capable of running it for you. This is the essence of big government and collectivism.

– Charles Koch  Famous Quote

I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

– George Bernard Shaw  Famous Quote

Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky  Famous Quote

The cause of freedom is the cause of God.

– William Lisle Bowles  Famous Quote

However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'

– Barry Goldwater  Famous Quote

The Care therefore of every man's Soul belongs unto himself, and is to be left unto himself. But what if he neglect the Care of his Soul? I answer, What if he neglects the Care of his Health, or of his Estate, which things are nearlier related to the Government of the Magistrate than the other? Will the magistrate provide by an express Law, That such an one shall not become poor or sick? Laws provide, as much as is possible, that the Goods and Health of Subjects be not injured by the Fraud and Violence of others; they do not guard them from the Negligence or Ill-husbandry of the Possessors themselves.

– John Locke  Famous Quote

The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: 'that God governs in the affairs of men.' And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

– Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

You are doing an excellent thing, one which will be wholesome for you, if, as you write me, you are persisting in your effort to attain sound understanding; it is foolish to pray for this when you can acquire it from yourself. We do not need to uplift our hands towards heaven, or to beg the keeper of a temple to let us approach his idol's ear, as if in this way our prayers were more likely to be heard. A god is near you, with you, and in you. This is what I mean, Lucilius: there sits a holy spirit within us, one who marks our good and bad deeds, and is our a guardian.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca  Famous Quote

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

– Thomas Paine  Famous Quote

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

– William Lloyd Garrison  Famous Quote

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

– Andre Gide  Famous Quote

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

– Woodrow Wilson  Famous Quote

In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

– John Marshall Harlan  Famous Quote

Luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

– Denzel Washington  Famous Quote

Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.

– Helen Steiner Rice  Famous Quote

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

– Eric Hoffer  Famous Quote

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  Famous Quote

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway, you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

– Marios Vargas Llosa  Famous Quote

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

– B.F. Skinner  Famous Quote

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war.

– Abraham Lincoln  Famous Quote

The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents -- men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest -- stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.

– Lysander Spooner  Famous Quote

Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence.

– Manly P. Hall  Famous Quote

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

– James A. Garfield  Famous Quote

Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.

– J. P. Morgan  Famous Quote

So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.

– William Richardson Davie  Famous Quote

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.

– Patrick J. Buchanan  Famous Quote

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

– Dante Alighieri  Famous Quote

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

– Benjamin Disraeli  Famous Quote

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

– Abraham Lincoln  Famous Quote

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal -- that there is no human relation between master and slave.

– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi  Famous Quote

I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone.

– David Carr  Famous Quote

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

– Carl Friedrich Gauss  Famous Quote

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

– Dwight D. Eisenhower  Famous Quote

Instead of fostering a system that enables people to help themselves, America is now saddled with a system that destroys value, raises costs, hinders innovation and relegates millions of citizens to a life of poverty, dependency and hopelessness. This is what happens when elected officials believe that people’s lives are better run by politicians and regulators than by the people themselves. Those in power fail to see that more government means less liberty, and liberty is the essence of what it means to be American. Love of liberty is the American ideal.

– Charles Koch  Famous Quote

Now the truth of the matter is, there is nothing wrong with this country. Please. The message I want to leave with you is that there's nothing wrong with this country that the proper leadership won't cure. We've been here before. In 1787, the economy of our nation was in absolute chaos and as a consequence, they met in Philadelphia to form a new country, and when they did, they did the right things, and in the second State of the Union address, which was written at that time by George Washington, he said the foundations, the economic foundations of our nation are on such sound footing that it would have been a madman would have suspected 3 years ago. The fact is that the chaos that they're creating doesn't mean that America can or has to be in decline. It means that we need to remove them as rapidly as possible and get people that know what to do and America will continue to climb.

– Bob McEwen  Famous Quote

If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca  Famous Quote

What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it… What is this liberty that must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not the freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check on their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few -- as we have learned to our sorrow. What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias...

– Learned Hand  Famous Quote

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

– William Graham Sumner  Famous Quote

Man is condemned to be free.

– Jean-Paul Sartre  Famous Quote

Never assume the obvious is true.

– William Safire  Famous Quote

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

– Omar Khayyam  Famous Quote

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

– Albert Szent-Gyorgi  Famous Quote

I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than the opposite.

– Nelson Mandela  Famous Quote

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.

– Arthur Ashe  Famous Quote

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

– Friedrich August von Hayek  Famous Quote

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

– Hermann Goering  Famous Quote

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor

– Frank Clark  Famous Quote

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

– Carl J. Friedrich  Famous Quote

When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already. … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’

– Adolf Hitler  Famous Quote

Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff.

– Adlai E. Stevenson II  Famous Quote

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

– Tad Williams  Famous Quote

What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people.

– Margaret Thatcher  Famous Quote

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

– Charles-Louis de Secondat  Famous Quote

The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frame it, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative.

– Kermit Victor Lipez  Famous Quote

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton  Famous Quote

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

– Bertrand de Jouvenel  Famous Quote

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process

– Thomas Sowell  Famous Quote

It is madness beyond compare to try to reform the world.

– Moliere  Famous Quote

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

– Henry Grady Weaver  Famous Quote

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

– Earl Nightingale  Famous Quote

Men being by nature all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent which is done by agreeing with other men, to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living in a secure enjoyment of their properties.

– John Locke  Famous Quote

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

– Robert A. Heinlein  Famous Quote

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

– Robert Anton Wilson  Famous Quote

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.

– Ayn Rand  Famous Quote

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.

– President Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

– Roger Sherman  Famous Quote

[W]e made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers.

– Robert E. Lee  Famous Quote

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

– Saint Thomas Aquinas  Famous Quote

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

– Khalil Gibran  Famous Quote

I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca  Famous Quote

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

– Robert Bork  Famous Quote

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

– Mike Tyson  Famous Quote

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

– J.R.R. Tolkien  Famous Quote

Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can’t buy. It’s an invisible energy with visible effects.

– Marianne Williamson  Famous Quote

It is not tragic to die doing something you love.

– Mark Foo  Famous Quote

Risk a lot to save a lot, risk a little to save a little, and risk nothing for what is already lost.”

– Frank Brunacin  Famous Quote

The tragedy of life lies not in not reaching your goals, but in having no goals to reach.

– Benjamin E. Mays  Famous Quote

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldnt swim.

– Margaret Thatcher  Famous Quote

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

– Frank Chodorov  Famous Quote

The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

– Adam Smith  Famous Quote

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

– Lord Acton  Famous Quote

By pursuing his own interest (every individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

– Adam Smith  Famous Quote

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

– D. H. Lawrence  Famous Quote

The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.’

– Walter E. Williams  Famous Quote

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.

– Lysander Spooner  Famous Quote

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ...You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

– Mother Teresa  Famous Quote

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

– Sir Francis Bacon  Famous Quote

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category within the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.‘

– Robert A. Heinlein  Famous Quote

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

– Sir Winston Churchill  Famous Quote

The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

– Charles Baudelaire  Famous Quote

Americans find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another. America is the land of the free and home of the brave -- we don't need a Patriot Act, because we are already patriots. We know freedom means responsibility, but I am not sure Congress and its domestic enforcement agencies do. More often than not, new security measures enacted by the government have resulted in more violations of the citizenry than terrorists have ever done. The terrorists want us to be afraid - well, we are not afraid. Stop wasting dollars on this program - it is not good for America. To give up essential liberty for a little security provides neither. The right to be left alone from government intrusion is the beginning of all freedoms.

– Eric Schaub  Famous Quote

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

– Samuel Adams  Famous Quote

The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

– Jacob G. Hornberger  Famous Quote

The secret is not to chase the butterflies.... It's to tend the garden so that they come to you and if they don’t come at least you have a garden.

– Mario Quintana  Famous Quote

The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the states; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the states chooses to withdraw from the compact, it would be difficult to disapprove its right of doing so, and the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly either by force or right.

– Alexis de Tocqueville  Famous Quote

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.

– Frank I. Cobb  Famous Quote

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

– Doug Bandow  Famous Quote

At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

– Frank Chodorov  Famous Quote

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

– Frederick Douglass  Famous Quote

However accurate or inaccurate the agency’s numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.

– James Bovard  Famous Quote

The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.

– Harry Browne  Famous Quote

If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of government. I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself. If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

– Woodrow Wilson  Famous Quote

What is needed here is a return to the Constitution of the United States. We need to have a complete divorce of Bank and State. The old struggle that was fought out here in Jackson's day must be fought over again... The Federal Reserve Act should be repealed and the Federal Reserve Banks, having violated their charters, should be liquidated immediately. Faithless Government officers who have violated their oaths of office should be impeached and brought to trial. Unless this is done by us, I predict that the American people, outraged, robbed, pillaged, insulted, and betrayed as they are in their own land, will rise in their wrath and send a President here who will sweep the money changers out of the temple

– Louis McFadden  Famous Quote

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight.

– John F. Kennedy  Famous Quote

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.

– John Maynard Keynes  Famous Quote

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

– Henry Ford  Famous Quote

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

– Bob Monkhouse  Famous Quote

...first ascertain exactly the position of the various capitalists, then control them, influence them by restricting or enlarging, facilitating or hindering their credits, and finally they can entirely determine their fate.

– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  Famous Quote

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

– Napoleon Bonaparte  Famous Quote

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.

– Stuart Chase  Famous Quote

A criminal trial is not a search for truth. It is much too circumscribed for that. Rather, a trial is a formalized contest for the hearts and minds of a panel of twelve. It is a quest for a verdict in which information is selected and screened (we can almost say “processed”) before it is allowed to reach jurors.

– Phillip Finch  Famous Quote

What is the fairest fruit of the English Tree of Liberty? The security of our rights and of the law, and that no man shall be brought to trial where there is a prejudice against him.

– Thomas Erskine  Famous Quote

No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.

– George Washington  Famous Quote

Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

– George Washington  Famous Quote

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

– George Washington  Famous Quote

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson  Famous Quote

As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.

– Abraham Lincoln  Famous Quote

Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason’s having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish fantasies. That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.

– Carl Jung  Famous Quote

Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to.

– Benjamin A. Rooge  Famous Quote

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

– Alice Walker  Famous Quote

Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

– Lysander Spooner  Famous Quote

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

– Michael Parenti  Famous Quote

There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau  Famous Quote

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

– Edgar J. Mohn  Famous Quote

Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.

– Sir Winston Churchill  Famous Quote

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

– Michel de Montaigne  Famous Quote

The truth doesn't sell. It is high in supply, but little in demand.

– Eric Schaub  Famous Quote

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

– Justice Joseph Story  Famous Quote

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

– John Milton  Famous Quote

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

– George Bernard Shaw  Famous Quote

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

– Marcus Aurelius  Famous Quote

Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.

– Krzysztof Kieślowski  Famous Quote

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.

– Clarence S. Darrow  Famous Quote

Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb. Jesus only told half the story. The truth 'will' set you free. But, first it's going to piss you off.

– David Gerrold  Famous Quote

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.

– John Gilmore  Famous Quote

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.

– Peter Levine  Famous Quote

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

– Calvin Coolidge  Famous Quote

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

– Frederick Douglass  Famous Quote

It comes as news to most people to learn that practically all important ethical teachers -- Moses, Aristotle, Jesus, Mohammed, and Saint Thomas Aquinas, for instance -- have denounced lending at interest as usury and as morally wrong.

– Lawrence Dennis  Famous Quote

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite; who made ten thousand people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

– David Lloyd George  Famous Quote

Ponder the capriciousness of human nature, which allows momentary appetites and fleeting attitudes to set the courses for entire lives and future responsibilities.

– Ann Gray  Famous Quote

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

– Thorton Wilder  Famous Quote

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

– Alexander Hamilton  Famous Quote

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

– Angelica Grimke  Famous Quote

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

– Frederick Douglass  Famous Quote

Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.

– Jamie Anderson  Famous Quote

The Legislative has no Right to absolute arbitrary Power over the Lives and Fortunes of the People: Nor can Mortals assume a Prerogative not only too high for Men but for Angels, and therefore reserv’d for the Exercise of the Deity alone.

– Samuel Adams  Famous Quote

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

– H. G. Wells  Famous Quote

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

– Frank Chodorov  Famous Quote

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

– Dwight D. Eisenhower  Famous Quote

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

– Paulo Coelho  Famous Quote

The more you know, the less you need to say.

– Jim Rohn  Famous Quote

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

– Ernest Hemingway  Famous Quote

Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in the past was that I believed love was about finding the right person. In reality, love is about becoming the right person. Don’t look for the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. Become the person you want to spend your life with.

– Neil Strauss  Famous Quote

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

– Frederic Bastiat  Famous Quote

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

– Cesare Beccaria  Famous Quote

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

– Henry Brooks Adams  Famous Quote

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky  Famous Quote

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky  Famous Quote

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky  Famous Quote

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky  Famous Quote

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

– John Cotton  Famous Quote

Your book is dedicated by the soundest reason. You had better get out of France as quickly as you can.

– Voltaire  Famous Quote

If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

– Vaclav Havel  Famous Quote

Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction.

– Thomas I. Emerson  Famous Quote

Comrades, I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is this: who will count the votes, and how.

– Josef Stalin  Famous Quote

Our experience has shown us that in the excitement of great popular elections, deciding the policy of the country, and its vast patronage, frauds will be committed, if a chance is given for them. If these frauds are allowed, the result is not only that the popular will may be defeated, and the result falsified, but that the worst side will prevail. The side which has the greater number of dishonest men will poll the most votes. The war cry, Vote early and vote often! and the familiar problem, how to cast the greatest number of votes with the smallest number of voters, indicate the direction in which the dangers lie.

– Richard Henry Dana, Jr.  Famous Quote

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

– William Marcy Tweed  Famous Quote

As you become more intimate with your suffering, your heart grows tender.

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness. But it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love – or any other experience – must take place in the present.

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present.

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

– Jack Kornfield  Famous Quote

We don’t live in our fears, we live in our hopes.

– Mike Tomlin  Famous Quote

The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable you see what you’re made of and who you are.

– Sue Bird  Famous Quote

Experience helps you understand what works and what doesn’t. And (personally), I think it has more to do with just wanting to continue to learn on and off the ice. … Whether it’s, you know, skills on the ice or trying to learn how to be a better teammate, better leader, better friend, you name it.

– Sidney Crosby  Famous Quote

If we don’t come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don’t care if you like each other or not, but you will respect each other. And maybe … I don’t know, maybe we’ll learn to play this game like men.

– Herman Boone  Famous Quote

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

– Mia Hamm  Famous Quote

I don’t look into the negativity and the hate. I am here to swim.

– Lia Thomas  Famous Quote

When anyone is critical of what I do, I’m just motivated by it. If someone says we’re not good enough, then we just do better. If another tennis player says something negative, I say, “That girl will never beat me.” We feed off the criticism.

– Venus Williams  Famous Quote

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow’s game.

– Roberto Clemente  Famous Quote

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

– Jackie Robinson  Famous Quote

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

You don’t have to announce, ‘you’re coming,’ just come. You don’t have to announce, ‘I’m next,’ just be next. You don’t have to scream, ‘give me my respect…’ you have to earn that.

– Andre Ward  Famous Quote

There’s a monster that comes out of me in the ring. I think it goes back to the days when I had nothing. It’s hunger. I think that’s what the monster is and it’s still there.

– Marvin Hagler  Famous Quote

People find pleasure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

– Marcus Aurelius  Famous Quote

Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.

– Marcus Aurelius  Famous Quote

Start praying like this and you’ll see. Not “some way to sleep with her” - but a way to stop wanting to. Not “some way to get rid of him” - but a way to stop trying. Not “some way to save my child” - but a way to lose fear. Redirect your prayers like that, and watch what happens.

– Marcus Aurelius  Famous Quote

Then isn’t it better to do what’s up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn’t, like a slave or a beggar?

– Marcus Aurelius  Famous Quote

But look at how soon we’re all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us - how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

– Marcus Aurelius  Famous Quote

We must have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

The life and the simple beauty of it is too good to pass up.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt...

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

Don't hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

I now walk into the wild.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

Happiness is only real when shared.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

The very basic core of a man’s spirit is his passion for adventure.

– Christopher McCandless  Famous Quote

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

– Mark Twain  Famous Quote

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

– Carl Jung  Famous Quote

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

– George Sand  Famous Quote

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

– Charles Bukowski  Famous Quote

Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.

– Denzel Washington  Famous Quote

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts.

– Alessandro Solzhenitsyn  Famous Quote

Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you.

– Boonaa Mohammed  Famous Quote

Some people don’t understand that sitting in your house alone in peace, eating snacks and minding your business is fucking priceless.

– Tom Hardy  Famous Quote

People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We’ll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us.

– Joseph Sobran  Famous Quote

To put it baldly, there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others. The former adds to society. The latter typically subtracts from it, for in the process of taking it away, wealth gets destroyed. A monopolist who overcharges for his product takes money from those whom he is overcharging and at the same time destroys value. To get his monopoly price, he has to restrict production.

– Joseph E. Stiglitz  Famous Quote

The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

– John Fiske  Famous Quote

That’s another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you’re dead, it’s the only thing that keeps you alive.

– Lauren Oliver  Famous Quote

That’s the way I feel, at least: like there’s a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

– Lauren Oliver  Famous Quote

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all.

– Lauren Oliver  Famous Quote

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

– Lauren Oliver  Famous Quote

It’s funny isn’t it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

– Lauren Oliver  Famous Quote

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

– Lauren Oliver  Famous Quote

Maybe you can afford to wait… but for some of us, there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

– Lauren Oliver  Famous Quote

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.

– Robin Williams  Famous Quote

The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when the fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

– H. L. Mencken  Famous Quote

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently those who live under the dominion of Puritanism become exceedingly desirous of power. Now love of power does far more harm than love of drink or any of the other vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous people love of power camouflages itself as love of doing good, but this makes very little difference to its social effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

– Bertrand Russell  Famous Quote

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent. And they must give it the respect and the latitude which they claim for themselves.

– Abe Fortas  Famous Quote

There is only one god and his name is death. And there is only one thing we say to death: not today.

– George R.R. Martin  Famous Quote

Nothing makes the past a sweeter place to visit than the prospect of imminent death.

– George R.R. Martin  Famous Quote

Let's see socialism for what it is. Not in the abstract, but in reality. Socialism is: The taking of money (taxes) from some people who work for it and giving it to others who don't work for it. On a grand scale. The vast expansion of freebies doled out by central government. In order to create and sustain dependence. The government protection of favored persons and corporations, permitting them and aiding them to expand their fortunes without limit, regardless of what crimes they commit in the process. (Monsanto would be a fine example.) The squeezing out of those who would compete with the favored persons and corporations. The dictatorship by and for the very wealthy, pretending to be the servant of the masses. The lie that the dictatorship is being run by the masses. The gradual lowering of the standard of living for the overwhelming number of people. The propaganda claiming socialism is the path to a better world for all. In other words, socialism is a protection racket and a long con and a heartless system of elite control, posing as the greatest good. It is just another form of top-down tyranny---as old as the hills.

– Jon Rappoport  Famous Quote

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are.

– Ayn Rand  Famous Quote

The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.

– Albert Jay Nock  Famous Quote

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.

– Lord Byron  Famous Quote

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

– Frederic Bastiat  Famous Quote

Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?

– Niccolo Machiavelli  Famous Quote

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

– Eckhart Tolle  Famous Quote

This leftist political strategy to win office and power relies on something very powerful: the desire to increase the number of Americans who are dependent on getting money that is taken from other citizens. Sadly, this strategy has worked for half a century! And now it works because Americans who are trapped in this nightmare do not want their government money taken away from them!

– Star Parker  Famous Quote

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

– Samuel Adams  Famous Quote

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Famous Quote

A bow has no conscience: it is a prolongation of the hand and desire of the archer. It can serve to kill or to meditate. Therefore, always be clear about your intentions. A bow is flexible, but it has its limits. Stretching it beyond its capacity will break it or exhaust the hand holding it. Therefore, try to be in harmony with your instrument and never ask more than it can give.

– Paulo Coelho  Famous Quote

Laws of nature do not make exceptions for nice people. A bullet has no conscience; neither does a malignant tumor or an automobile gone out of control. That is why good people get sick and get hurt as much as anyone.

– Harold S. Kushner  Famous Quote

A dirty player Is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There’s a huge difference. There’s no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don’t have that mean streak in me. I don’t play angry. It’s not anger.

– Ndamukong Suh  Famous Quote

I know they say that a stiff dick has no conscience, but I tell you now that some cunts have teeth.

– Stephen King  Famous Quote

A satellite has no conscience.

– Edward R. Murrow  Famous Quote

If it weren’t for electricity, we’d all be watching TV by candlelight.

– George Gobel  Famous Quote

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of genius.

– William Blake  Famous Quote

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

– Steve Allen  Famous Quote

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

– Johann Philipp Reis  Famous Quote

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

– John Cleese  Famous Quote

One of the most pathetic — and dangerous — signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

– Thomas Sowell  Famous Quote

If you really want to compete with Russia and China to prevent the 21st Century from being dominated by a new axis of evil, you must first defeat the Church of Global Warming. As long as that’s the official state religion of the Western world, we haven’t got a prayer.

– John Hayward  Famous Quote

I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. ... I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. ... We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.

– John C. Danforth  Famous Quote

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

– Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

– Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

– Ted Nugent  Famous Quote

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

– Alex Kozinski  Famous Quote

In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

– Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

People who cannot find time for recreation are sooner or later to find time for illness.

– John Wanamaker  Famous Quote

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

– Lorne Michaels  Famous Quote

If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

– Will Rogers  Famous Quote

The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society.

– John Adams  Famous Quote

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

– Lawrence Auster  Famous Quote

Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.

– John F. McManus  Famous Quote

[A] public policy of simply discouraging people from owning or using firearms is not, in and of itself, a constitutionally permissible objective, any more than discouraging people from religious observance would be permissible to some oh-so-progressive government that considered religion as hopelessly declassé as progressives nowadays consider the right to keep and bear arms .... And any statute or regulation that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the ground that guns are a public health hazard should enjoy the same frosty reception in court that would be given a statute or regulation that burdened the free exercise of religion as a mental hazard.

– Daniel D. Polsby  Famous Quote

The notion of editorial independence from ownership only dates back to the 1930s. Prior to that time the media was openly biased and that includes the Press that the founding fathers dealt with. Some of the founders like Hamilton and Franklin had actually ran media outlets that were very biased. You used to have things like Newspapers that openly proclaimed they were a Democratic or Republican or Whig or a Federalist newspaper right on the banner. The concept of an independent and allegedly neutral press was and still is mainly pushed by people from the left who do NOT want anything remotely neutral, but who instead want to make sure those evil business interests don't have a means of getting their side aired without it being filtered by their idea of what a neutral press consists of.

– John Dobbins  Famous Quote

The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is -- it's got to be more government.

– Harry Browne  Famous Quote

If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom… What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.

– Tom Wicker  Famous Quote

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

– Hubert H. Humphrey  Famous Quote

The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.

– Edgar Watson Howe  Famous Quote

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree

– Thomas Paine  Famous Quote

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

– Dalai Lama  Famous Quote

It is a basic principle of a tyrant to unarm his people of weapons, money, and all means whereby they resist his power.

– Sir Walter Raleigh  Famous Quote

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

– Richard Henry Lee  Famous Quote

It is unreasonable... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

– Charles de Montesquieu  Famous Quote

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

– Mark Twain  Famous Quote

The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.

– Edmund B. Chaffee  Famous Quote

Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.

– Arthur Hays Sulzberger  Famous Quote

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of the public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of the public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valueable, and your freedom less complete.

– Benjamin Disraeli  Famous Quote

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

– Ezra Pound  Famous Quote

Throughout the history of the United States, war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance.

– Bruce D. Porter  Famous Quote

Only a debt-backed system of paper money could finance the great wars, the social improvements and the fevered dreams of the 20th century.

– Brian Maher  Famous Quote

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

– General George Patton  Famous Quote

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

– Epictetus  Famous Quote

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

– Carl Jung  Famous Quote

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the right to education, the right to health care, the right to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle. There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

– P. J. O'Rourke  Famous Quote

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

– P. J. O'Rourke  Famous Quote

There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

– P. J. O'Rourke  Famous Quote

No Gulag, evidently, can deter the advocates of state power from believing in their own virtue and in the morality of the power they exercise. We are all Hobbesians now. Virtue is presumed to reside in the state. Its reliance on compulsion is seen as fulfilling, not undermining, morality. Our communicators, oddly employed in the private sector, work tirelessly to ensure that state control is maintained, our taxes stay high, the official message is promoted. The people know, and can only know, a tiny fraction of what Leviathan does, and what they know is what these partisans tell them.

– Tom Bethel  Famous Quote

What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism, but beyond this fact its capacity for entering into the smallest details of human life.

– Robert Nisbet  Famous Quote

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

– Anne Frank  Famous Quote

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Famous Quote

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

– Margaret Thatcher  Famous Quote

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

– C. S. Lewis  Famous Quote

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

– Robert Louis Stevenson  Famous Quote

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

– Eleanor of Aquitaine  Famous Quote

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.

– Sir Denison Miller  Famous Quote

The most may err as grossly as the few.

– John Dryden  Famous Quote

You can get through life with bad manners, but it’s easier with good manners.

– Lillian Gish  Famous Quote

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)

– Cornelius Tacitus  Famous Quote

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.

– Donald Alexander  Famous Quote

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

– Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

– Ludwig Von Mises  Famous Quote

But there is another strong objection which I, one of the laziest of all the children of Adam, have against the Leisure State. Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master, for the machine would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion of how it was really being produced.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton  Famous Quote

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

– Eleanor Roosevelt  Famous Quote

All Men have a Right to remain in a State of Nature as long as they please: And in case of intolerable Oppression, civil or religious, to leave the Society they belong to and enter into another. When Men enter into Society, it is by voluntary Consent, and they have a Right to demand and insist upon the performance of such Conditions and previous Limitations as form an equitable original Compact.

– Samuel Adams  Famous Quote

There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.

– Edmund Burke  Famous Quote

They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

– Thomas Sowell  Famous Quote

All (totalitarian) versions of society-as-garden define the parts of the social habitat as human weeds. Like all weeds, they must be segregated, contained, prevented from spreading, removed and kept outside the society boundaries; if all these means prove insufficient, they must be killed.

– Zygmunt Bauman  Famous Quote

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

– Barry Goldwater  Famous Quote

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

– Karl Popper  Famous Quote

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

– Lao Tzu  Famous Quote

The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.

– Thomas Sowell  Famous Quote

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

– Sir Francis Bacon  Famous Quote

In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.

– Justice Hugo L. Black  Famous Quote

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

– HEDY LAMARR  Famous Quote

The burning of an author’s books, imprisonment for opinion’s sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

– Joseph Lewis  Famous Quote

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district - all studied and appreciated as they merit - are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

– Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  Famous Quote

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

– Stephen King  Famous Quote

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

– Jack Handey  Famous Quote

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

– Hal Borland  Famous Quote

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

– Wallace Stevens  Famous Quote

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

– Albert Einstein  Famous Quote

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

– John Muir  Famous Quote

Equal laws protecting equal rights -- the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

– James Madison  Famous Quote

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

– Henry Steele Commager  Famous Quote

My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

– Mark Twain  Famous Quote

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your faults.

– Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

I don't want to be alone; I want to be left alone.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

– Alexandre Dumas  Famous Quote

Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?

– Alexis de Tocqueville  Famous Quote

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca  Famous Quote

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.

– Will Rogers  Famous Quote

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

– John Stuart Mill  Famous Quote

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

– Eleanor Roosevelt  Famous Quote

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

– Henry David Thoreau  Famous Quote

Get in trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.

– John Lewis  Famous Quote

Some of you laugh to scorn the idea of bloodshed as the result of secession, but let me tell you what is coming….Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet….You may after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence…but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of state rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction…they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.

– Sam Houston  Famous Quote

If a theory and its proponents stubbornly refuse falsification by an ever increasing body of substantial conflicting evidence, the theory degenerates into a textbook example of dogmatic pseudo-science. The neo-Darwinian theory of macroevolution has failed on all fronts, from mathematical feasibility, to theoretical plausibility and explanatory power, to empirical support.

– Günter Bechly  Famous Quote

In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

– Galileo Galilei  Famous Quote

By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

– Anthony Collins  Famous Quote

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

– John F. Kennedy  Famous Quote

If you want to bring happiness into the world, go home and love your family.

– Mother Teresa  Famous Quote

Don’t be a lady, be a legend.

– Stevie Nicks  Famous Quote

You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

– Brian Tracy  Famous Quote

Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors.

– John Adams  Famous Quote

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science. Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

– Friedrich August von Hayek  Famous Quote

I know that most men -- not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems - can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty -- conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.

– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi  Famous Quote

Causes that live by politics, die by politics.

– Steven F. Hayward  Famous Quote

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely.

– Lorraine Hansberry  Famous Quote

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

– William Blake  Famous Quote

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth

– Henri F. Amiel  Famous Quote

Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.

– Elbert Hubbard  Famous Quote

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

– David Sarnoff  Famous Quote

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

– Zen Shin  Famous Quote

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

– Samuel Adams  Famous Quote

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

– Mignon McLaughlin  Famous Quote

The men who rule the Democratic Party then promised the people that if they were returned to power there would be no central bank established here while they held the reigns of government. Thirteen months later that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration, under the tutelage of those sinister Wall Street figures who stood behind Colonel House, established here in our free Country the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the King's Bank to control us from the top downward, and from the cradle to the grave.

– Louis McFadden  Famous Quote

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.)

– Carl Sagan  Famous Quote

[When] Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology, why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

– Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)  Famous Quote

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

– Willie Nelson  Famous Quote

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

– Carlos Castaneda  Famous Quote

You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.

– Martin Luther King  Famous Quote

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

– Dale Carnegie  Famous Quote

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

– Thomas Edison  Famous Quote

A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.

– Christopher Germer  Famous Quote

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

– Virginia Woolf  Famous Quote

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should to rest on inference.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

Do we still recognize [the Constitution of the United States of America] as the basis of our system of government in America, or not? Do we still have a constitution that guarantees our unalienable rights as the sovereign citizens of a great and free nation, or not? Do we have a federal government and state governments that honor and defend the fundamental principles of equal justice, due process or law, the right to life, liberty, and property - the principles that represent the very foundation of our constitutional form of government, or not? We the People have a right to know the truth. We have a right to know if we still have a Constitution.

– Bob Schultz  Famous Quote

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

– John Steinbeck  Famous Quote

If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self

– Wayne Dyer  Famous Quote

If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism

– Roger Sherman  Famous Quote

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

– Bill Clinton  Famous Quote

I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ... The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply.

– Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild  Famous Quote

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you.

– Stephen King  Famous Quote

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

– Alexander Graham Bell  Famous Quote

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

– Agatha Christie  Famous Quote

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

– Leo Burnett  Famous Quote

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

– George Addair  Famous Quote

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

– Henry Ford  Famous Quote

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, The creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

– Sir Winston Churchill  Famous Quote

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

Religious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. Anything that tends to invade a right so essential and sacred must be carefully guarded against, and I am satisfied that my countrymen, ever mindful of the suffering and sacrifices necessary to obtain it, will never consent to its impairment for any reason or under any pretext whatsoever.

– Thomas F. Bayard  Famous Quote

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man’s religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.

– Tertullian  Famous Quote

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

– Francois de La Rochefoucauld  Famous Quote

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

– Harper Lee  Famous Quote

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

– Dag Hammarskjold  Famous Quote

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

– Anais Nin  Famous Quote

Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development.

– Nikita Khrushchev  Famous Quote

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

– Clare Boothe Luce  Famous Quote

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

– Eleanor Roosevelt  Famous Quote

I will no longer pay for the destruction of my country, family, and self. Damn tyranny! Damn the Federal Reserve liars and thieves! Damn all pettifogging, oath-breaking US attorneys and judges.… I will see you all in hell and shed my blood before I will be robbed of one more dollar to finance a national policy of treason, plunder, and corruption.

– Marvin Cooley  Famous Quote

Each peso [or dollar] is a contract between the government and the peso holder. That contract guarantees that each peso -- as a unit of value that the holder has worked hard to get -- will be worth as much tomorrow as today. If the government breaks the contract, it's breaking the law. The only role of government in the economy should be to guarantee the integrity of market transactions.

– Domingo Cavallo  Famous Quote

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

– George Bernard Shaw  Famous Quote

However mean your life is, meet and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

– Henry David Thoreau  Famous Quote

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

– Denis Waitley  Famous Quote

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is... legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay ... If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

– Frederic Bastiat  Famous Quote

The more laws, the less justice.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero  Famous Quote

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

– Josiah Gilbert Holland  Famous Quote

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.

– Sanford Levinson  Famous Quote

Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices – taking advantage of our freedom of speech – who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.

– Nat Hentoff  Famous Quote

The cult of passivity and so-called relaxation is one of most dangerous developments of our times. Essentially, it represents a camouflage pattern, the double wish not to see the dangers and challenges of life and not to be seen… Silent, lonely relaxation with alcohol, sweets, or the television screen… may soothe the mind into a passivity that may gradually make it vulnerable to the seductive ideology of some feared enemy. Denying the danger of totalitarianism through passivity, may gradually surrender to its blandishments those who were initially afraid of it.

– Joost A. Merloo  Famous Quote

We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation… we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

– Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn  Famous Quote

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

– John Dryden  Famous Quote

Never trust governments absolutely and always do what you can to prevent them from doing too much harm.

– John Arthur Passmore  Famous Quote

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton  Famous Quote

Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you’re told you deserve whatever you get.

– Iain Banks  Famous Quote

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

Blind submission to the Administration of the government is not devotion to the country or the Constitution. The administration is not the government.

– Edward G. Ryan  Famous Quote

There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

– Demosthenes  Famous Quote

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

– George Orwell  Famous Quote

No, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals with fearless heart to heaven, and thence brings down his everlasting rights, which there abide, inalienably his, and indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, wherein man confronts his fellow man; and if all other means shall fail his need, one last resort remains—his own good sword. The dearest of our goods we may defend From violence. We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children!

– Friedrich Schiller  Famous Quote

Can anybody point me to that one time in history where the side that was demanding censorship, segregation, propaganda, radical education, papers to move freely in society, plus government forces going door to door to demand compliance were the good guys?

– Candace Owens  Famous Quote

I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting, but I try not to look like it.

– Marvin Hagler  Famous Quote

The only difference between street fighting and boxing is that there is a ref there stopping me from killing you.

– Marvin Hagler  Famous Quote

It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas.

– Marvin Hagler  Famous Quote

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them.

– Montaigne  Famous Quote

Everything in this book may be wrong.

– Richard Bach  Famous Quote

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

– Milton Friedman  Famous Quote

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian.

– Heywood Hale Broun  Famous Quote

We should never define libertarian positions in terms coined by liberals and conservatives, nor as some variant of their positions. We are not fiscally conservative and socially liberal. We are libertarians, who believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility on all issues at all times.

– Harry Browne  Famous Quote

Every insubordinate person, when he rises up against oppression, reaffirms thereby the solidarity of all men.

– Albert Camus  Famous Quote

I rebel - therefore we exist.

– Albert Camus  Famous Quote

A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime… whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber… or by millions, calling themselves a government.

– Lysander Spooner  Famous Quote

With such (collectivist) systems, the individual has always been a victim, twisted against him or herself and commanded to be “unselfish” in sacrificial service to some allegedly higher value called God or pharaoh or emperor or king or society or the state or the race or the proletariat - or the cosmos. It is a strange paradox of our history that this doctrine - which tells us to regard ourselves, in effect, as sacrificial animals - has been generally accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for humankind. From the first individual… who was sacrificed on an altar for the good of the tribe, to the heretics and dissenters burned at the stake for the good of the populace or the glory of God, to the millions exterminated in… slave-labor camps for the good of the race or of the proletariat, it is this (collectivist) morality that has served as justification for every dictatorship and every atrocity, past or present.

– Nathaniel Branden  Famous Quote

A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as such he must dedicate himself to the ethical whole. Hence, if the State claims life, the individual must surrender it… All the worth which the human being possesses… he possesses only through the State.

– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  Famous Quote

The common good before the individual good.

– Adolf Hitler  Famous Quote

The great citizens of a country are not those who bend the knee before authority but rather those who, against authority if need be, are adamant as to the honor and freedom of that country.

– Albert Camus  Famous Quote

For believe me! - the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas!… Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer!

– Friedrich Nietzsche  Famous Quote

If someone says that he cares for some individual, community, or cause, but is unwilling to risk harm or danger on his, her, or its behalf, he puts into question the genuineness of his care and concern. Courage, the capacity to risk harm or danger to oneself, has its role in human life because of this connection with care and concern

– Alasdair Macintyre  Famous Quote

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources: our cities, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong. First principle: one must need to be strong - otherwise one will never become strong.

– Friedrich Nietzsche  Famous Quote

Danger makes men classical, and all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk.

– Albert Camus  Famous Quote

A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

– John Stuart Mill  Famous Quote

Relieving people of the burden of freedom in order to make them feel safe is a recurring theme in the history of authoritarianism.

– Frank Furedi  Famous Quote

Historically some of the most prosperous societies - Ancient Athens, Renaissance Italy, nineteenth century Britain - were among those that were most oriented towards experimentation and the taking of risks.

– Frank Furedi  Famous Quote

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

– Tacitus  Famous Quote

Young people are socialized to feel fragile and overawed by uncertainty (and as a result)… the defining feature of the current Western 21st century version of personhood is its vulnerability. Although society still upholds the ideal of sel-determination and autonomy, the values associated with them are increasingly overridden by a message that stresses the quality of human weakness. And if vulnerability is, indeed, the defining feature of the human condition, it follows that being fearful is the normal state…

– Frank Furedi  Famous Quote

If a man wants to become a hero, the snake must first become a dragon: otherwise he is lacking his proper enemy.

– Friedrich Nietzsche  Famous Quote

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

– Rudyard Kipling  Famous Quote

Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.

– Epictetus  Famous Quote

The mentally healthy individual is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant - so that only the surface is disturbed - begins to suffer from‘circulation problems’. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers.

– Colin Wilson  Famous Quote

Boredom, passivity, stagnation: these are the beginning of mental illness, which propagates itself like the scum on a stagnant pond.

– Colin Wilson  Famous Quote

This is one of the most urgent problems for civilized man. He has created civilization to give him security. Security for what? For boredom? His chief problem seems to be that most human beings need a certain amount of challenge, of external stimulus, to stop them from sinking into the blank stare and blank consciousness of the idiot.

– Colin Wilson  Famous Quote

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?

– Lord Chancellor Thurlow  Famous Quote

A man can’t go out the way he came in… a man has got to add up to something!

– Arthur Miller  Famous Quote

Weak men create hard times.

– Michael Hopf  Famous Quote

Femininity unfolds naturally, whereas masculinity must be achieved; and here is where the male ritual cult steps in.

– Gilbert Herdt  Famous Quote

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. Freedom of money and freedom of banking... are the principles that must guide our steps.

– Hans F. Sennholz  Famous Quote

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

– James Baldwin  Famous Quote

If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.

– Joseph Sobran  Famous Quote

Why darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.

– Ernest Hemingway  Famous Quote

By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus  Famous Quote

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

– François Duc de La Rochefoucauld  Famous Quote

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

– John Locke  Famous Quote

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

– John Adams  Famous Quote

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

– William Kingdon Clifford  Famous Quote

America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed.

– Eleanor Roosevelt  Famous Quote

By a very conservative estimate, a hundred million people have died at the hands of their own governments in this century. Given that record, how bad could anarchy be?

– Joseph Sobran  Famous Quote

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.... The beauty and cogency of the preamble, reaching back to remotest antiquity and forward to an infinite future, having lifted the hearts of millions of men and will continue to do.... These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, more explosive than the atom, a continual challenge to ourselves as well as an inspiration to the oppressed of all the world.

– Samuel Eliot Morison  Famous Quote

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

– Archibald MacLeish  Famous Quote

Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I've tried to do these past eight years.

– President Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died! Land of the Pilgrims' pride! From ev'ry mountainside, Let freedom ring!

– Samuel Francis Smith  Famous Quote

The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

– Louis D. Brandeis  Famous Quote

The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.

– James Madison  Famous Quote

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants

– James Fenimore Cooper  Famous Quote

If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

– Alexander Hamilton  Famous Quote

If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.

– Richard Salant  Famous Quote

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

– Camille Paglia  Famous Quote

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

– Calvin Coolidge  Famous Quote

America is great because America is good. If America ever ceases to be good it will cease to be great.

– Alexis de Tocqueville  Famous Quote

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

– Ludwig Von Mises  Famous Quote

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

– Dwight D. Eisenhower  Famous Quote

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances you were born with.

– Amy Tan  Famous Quote

These men - ..., the politicians, ... - use their position, their knowledge, and their power of disseminating misinformation to arouse and stimulate the latent instinct for bloodshed. When they have succeeded, they say they are reluctantly forced to war by the pressure of public opinion.

– Bertrand Russell  Famous Quote

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

– Immanuel Kant  Famous Quote

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

– Friedrich August von Hayek  Famous Quote

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

– Theodore Dalrymple  Famous Quote

The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.

– Adam Smith  Famous Quote

Man is deeply vulnerable when faced with overwhelming evil. Instead of consolidating his energy to fight it, he wastes valuable time and effort puzzling over it, insisting it is not, cannot possibly be, what it seems.

– Konnilyn G. Feig  Famous Quote

Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom of speech on campus. This demand for enhanced censorship is not emanating only from the usual corner – the know-nothing fundamentalist right – it is coming from the radical, and increasingly not-so-radical left as well.

– Alan Dershowitz  Famous Quote

God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of men that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense...

– Alexander Hamilton  Famous Quote

And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

– William Blackstone  Famous Quote

But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.

– Yaron Brook  Famous Quote

We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money.

– Davy Crockett  Famous Quote

The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.

– Frederick Bastiat  Famous Quote

So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant’s plea, excused his devilish deeds.

– John Milton  Famous Quote

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

– Walter Lippmann  Famous Quote

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

– Virginia Woolf  Famous Quote

How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self replicating capabilities, and coded chemistry?

– Antony Flew  Famous Quote

I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers... and if none of that works, I go buy a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

– Susan Strasberg  Famous Quote

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

– Lee Strasberg  Famous Quote

Acting isn’t something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you’re going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

– Lee Strasberg  Famous Quote

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

– Lee Strasberg  Famous Quote

A great actor is independent of the poet; because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in the prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

– Lee Strasberg  Famous Quote

If a majority are capable of preferring their own private interest, or that of their families, counties, and party, to that of the nation collectively, some provision must be made in the constitution, in favor of justice, to compel all to respect the common right, the public good, the universal law, in preference to all private and partial considerations... And that the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of history... To remedy the dangers attendant upon the arbitrary use of power, checks, however multiplied, will scarcely avail without an explicit admission some limitation of the right of the majority to exercise sovereign authority over the individual citizen... In popular governments [democracies], minorities [individuals] constantly run much greater risk of suffering from arbitrary power than in absolute monarchies...

– John Adams  Famous Quote

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

– John Adams  Famous Quote

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

– Robert NozicK  Famous Quote

The internal effects of a mutable policy are [...] calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.

– James Madison  Famous Quote

Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.

– Thomas Sowell  Famous Quote

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

– Thomas Paine  Famous Quote

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream - the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order - or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

– President Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

– President Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

– President Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  Famous Quote

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

– Friedrich August von Hayek  Famous Quote

All you have to do, is to see whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give it to others to whom it does not belong. We must see whether the law performs, for the profit of one citizen and to the detriment of others, an act which that citizen could not perform himself without being guilty of a crime. Repeal such a law without delay. ... [I]f you don’t take care, what begins by being an exception tends to become general, to multiply itself, and to develop into a veritable system.

– Frederick Bastiat  Famous Quote

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.

– Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948  Famous Quote

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.

– Georges Bernanos  Famous Quote

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.

– Justice William O. Douglas  Famous Quote

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. ... Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. ... fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.

– Justice William O. Douglas  Famous Quote

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

– Justice William O. Douglas  Famous Quote

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

– Edward H. Crane  Famous Quote

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

– Anacharsis  Famous Quote

It [government] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

– Alexis de Tocqueville  Famous Quote

You demonize...we call it the wrap-up smear, you smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it and then you write it and say, See, it's reported in the press that this, this, and this... so they have that validation that the press reported the smear and then it's called a wrap-up-smear and the merchandise is the press' report on the smear we made. It's a tactic, and it's self-evident.

– Nancy Pelosi  Famous Quote

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits.

– Edward L. Bernays  Famous Quote

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

– Buckminster Fuller  Famous Quote

For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

– Andrew Bernstein  Famous Quote

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

– Alexander Ivanovich Herzen  Famous Quote

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero  Famous Quote

... above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood...

– Alexis de Tocqueville  Famous Quote

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

– W. E. B. Du Bois  Famous Quote

Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.

– Barry Goldwater  Famous Quote

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

– Arthur Balfour  Famous Quote

Politics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.

– Auberon Herbert  Famous Quote

It's never more important to move slowly and carefully before granting the state new powers than in the wake of tragedies.

– Brian Doherty  Famous Quote

The United States was supposed to have a limited government because the founders knew government power attracts demagogues and despots as surely as horse manure attracts horseflies.

– Rick Gaber  Famous Quote

... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

– Justice Warren E. Burger  Famous Quote

Where law ends, tyranny begins.

– Margaret Thatcher  Famous Quote

...[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

– Fisher Ames  Famous Quote

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

– Fisher Ames  Famous Quote

The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of ‘Resistance’ against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law. This highlights a basic disadvantage that conservatives have always had in contesting the political issues of the day. It was adverted to by the old, curmudgeonly Federalist, Fisher Ames, in an essay during the early years of the Republic.

– William Barr  Famous Quote

Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. ... Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person’s property to give it to another to whom it does not belong -- in effect, legalized theft.

– Walter E. Williams  Famous Quote

Liberalism is a moral manipulation that exaggerates inequity and unfairness in American life in order to justify overreaching public policies and programs. Liberalism undermines the spirit of self-help and individual responsibility. For liberals in academia, the fact that black college students earn lower grades and have a higher dropout rate than any group besides reservation Indians means that blacks remain stymied and victimized by white racism. Thus, their push for affirmative action and other race-based programs is to assuage their guilt and shame for America’s past by having people around with black skin color. The heck with the human being inside that skin.

– Walter E. Williams  Famous Quote

What’s “just” has been debated for centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn “belongs” to you -- and why?

– Walter E. Williams  Famous Quote

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

– John Adams  Famous Quote

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

– John Adams  Famous Quote

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

– John Adams  Famous Quote

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

– Frederic Bastiat  Famous Quote

Our government has found that the most effective way to control a person is not by the ballot or the bullet, but rather by the 'bucket'. Today, in a country that fought a revolution to rid itself of a repressive government and excessive taxes, government takes 40 percent of everything we earn in the form of taxes.

– Byron C. Radaker  Famous Quote

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.

– Harry S Truman  Famous Quote

Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed.

– James Wilson  Famous Quote

The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government’s involvement at all.

– Lew Rockwell  Famous Quote

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.

– Ayn Rand  Famous Quote

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

– Epictetus  Famous Quote

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.

– Theodore Roosevelt  Famous Quote

Who profits by a sin has done the sin.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca  Famous Quote

Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca  Famous Quote

Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.

– Otis Chandler  Famous Quote

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.

– O. A. Battista  Famous Quote

The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!

– Mordechai Anielewicz  Famous Quote

He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still.

– Samuel Butler  Famous Quote

We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty.

– Marvin Cooley  Famous Quote

If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals—not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall.

– Albert J. Beveridge  Famous Quote

A greater principle is at stake than the fate of any particular president.

– Benjamin Curtis  Famous Quote

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!

– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  Famous Quote

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

– Pablo Casals  Famous Quote

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.

– John Quincy Adams  Famous Quote

The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.

– Justice Hugo L. Black  Famous Quote

If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave.

– John Bryant  Famous Quote

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

– John Osborne  Famous Quote

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly

– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Famous Quote

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

– Robert A. Heinlein  Famous Quote

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

– Lillian Hellman  Famous Quote

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

– Justice Louis Brandeis  Famous Quote

To dragoon man into the adoption of what we think right, is an intolerable tyranny.

– William Godwin  Famous Quote

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

– Justice William O. Douglas  Famous Quote

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well.

– Booker T. Washington  Famous Quote

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

– Milton Friedman  Famous Quote

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

– Justice William O. Douglas  Famous Quote

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

– Thomas Szasz  Famous Quote

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

– Horatio Seymour  Famous Quote

The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.

– John C. Calhoun  Famous Quote

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

– Ambrose Bierce  Famous Quote

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

– Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

The greatest violator of the principle of equal liberty is the State. Its functions are to control, to rule, to dictate, to regulate, and in exercising these functions it interferes with and injures individuals who have done no wrong. The objection to government is, not that it controls those who invade the liberty of others, but that it controls the non-invader. It may be necessary to govern one who will not govern himself, but that in no wise justifies governing one who is capable of and willing to govern himself. To argue that because some need restraint all must be restrained is neither consistent nor logical.

– Charles T. Sprading  Famous Quote

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

– Benjamin Disraeli  Famous Quote

Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.

– Tom Gates  Famous Quote

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

– J.S.B. Morse  Famous Quote

One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you... then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go.

– Aubrey Drake Graham  Famous Quote

Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because your tears won’t let you see the stars.

– Violeta Parra  Famous Quote

I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments. The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments, that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.

– John Hospers  Famous Quote

The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned -- the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach -- is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.

– Jacob G. Hornburger  Famous Quote

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

– Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.

– Josef Stalin  Famous Quote

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

– Harry S. Truman  Famous Quote

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

– William Marcy Tweed  Famous Quote

I think I have served the purpose that I came here for, which was to provide a credible election product for our members.

– Brenda Snipes  Famous Quote

[W]henever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence. Whensoever therefore the Legislative shall transgress this fundamental Rule of Society; and either by Ambition, Fear, Folly or Corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other an Absolute Power over the Lives, Liberties, and Estates of the People; By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power, the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty.

– John Locke  Famous Quote

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.

– Jim Stovall  Famous Quote

During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power...

– Edward Alsworth Ross  Famous Quote

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

– Ayn Rand  Famous Quote

Unlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

– William Pitt  Famous Quote

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

– Walter Lippmann  Famous Quote

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.

– Thomas Paine  Famous Quote

I sometimes laugh when people talk about down years for me because a lot of times down years for me are career years for most quarterbacks.

– Aaron Rodgers  Famous Quote

If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.

– Tibor Machan  Famous Quote

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.

– John Locke  Famous Quote

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

– Reverend Martin Niemoeller  Famous Quote

There is a place for government in the affairs of men, and our Declaration of Independence tells us precisely what that place is. The role of government is to protect individuals in their God-given individual rights. Freedom is the natural birthright of man, but all that government can do in behalf of freedom is to let the individual alone, and it should secure him in his rights by making others let him alone.

– Edmund A. Opitz  Famous Quote

It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessarily demagogic appeals for votes. If individuals do not know their own interests in many cases, they are free to turn to private experts for guidance. It is absurd to say that they will be served better by a coercive, demagogic apparatus.

– Murray N. Rothbard  Famous Quote

What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

– Joel Miller  Famous Quote

Some informants spied on their neighbors because they actually believed the propaganda… Some denounced their enemies in order to settle personal grudges. Some were driven by their own fears to attempt to deflect attention away from themselves…Some were motivated by the sense of power turning in their neighbors gave them.

– Kort E. Patterson  Famous Quote

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

– George Mason  Famous Quote

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

– Friedrich Nietzsche  Famous Quote

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

– James Madison  Famous Quote

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. ...[I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

– President Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

– Theodore Roosevelt  Famous Quote

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

– Patrick Henry  Famous Quote

The Natural Liberty of Man is to be free from any Superior Power on Earth, and not to be under the Will or Legislative Authority of Man, but to have only the Law of Nature for his Rule.

– John Locke  Famous Quote

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

– P. J. O'Rourke  Famous Quote

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

– Will Rogers  Famous Quote

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

– Thomas Paine  Famous Quote

When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.

– Ken Livingstone  Famous Quote

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

– H. L. Mencken  Famous Quote

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

– James Madison  Famous Quote

To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so. . . To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon  Famous Quote

The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong.

– L. A. Powe Jr.  Famous Quote

No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words 'no' and 'not' employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.

– Edmund A. Opitz  Famous Quote

Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.

– Malcolm X  Famous Quote

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

– Malcolm X  Famous Quote

I’m the man you think you are. If you want to know what I’ll do, figure out what you’ll do. I’ll do the same thing–only more of it.”

– Malcolm X  Famous Quote

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

– Malcolm X  Famous Quote

I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.

– Malcolm X  Famous Quote

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that’s racist.

– Malcolm X  Famous Quote

I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

– Malcolm X  Famous Quote

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

– Malcolm X  Famous Quote

The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros, and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked, or deceived by the white liberal then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man. The only way that our problem will be solved is when the black man wakes up, clean himself up, stand on his own feet and stop begging the white man, and take immediate steps to do for ourselves the things that we have been waiting on the white man to do for us.

– Malcolm X  Famous Quote

Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.

– John Locke  Famous Quote

I have no reason to suppose, that he, who would take away my liberty, would not, when he had me in his power, take away every thing else

– John Locke  Famous Quote

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

– John Wesley  Famous Quote

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

– Immanuel Kant  Famous Quote

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

– George Jacob Holyoake  Famous Quote

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

– Sir James MacKintosh  Famous Quote

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

– George Herbert  Famous Quote

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

– Frederick Douglass  Famous Quote

Democrats won’t let you go to work, but they’ll let you riot.

– Jim Jordan  Famous Quote

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

– Edward Everett  Famous Quote

I am not free until I say so. And there's a good chance I am going to have to fight once I do. Ever since I declared my Independence, I have had to support and defend it.

– Eric Schaub  Famous Quote

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose this battle.

– Benjamin E. Mays  Famous Quote

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

– Rudyard Kipling  Famous Quote

Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.

– James Wilson  Famous Quote

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

– Moliere  Famous Quote

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

– Lao-Tzu  Famous Quote

It is a stroke of good fortune to find one who is worth seducing... Most people rush ahead, become engaged or do other stupid things, and in a turn of the hand everything is over, and they know neither what they have won nor what they have lost.

– Soren Kierkegaard  Famous Quote

The menu is not the meal.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.”

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

There is always something taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one’s eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….

– Alan Watts  Famous Quote

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

– John Viscount Morley  Famous Quote

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

– Arthur C. Clarke  Famous Quote

I swear by my life, and love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

– Ayn Rand  Famous Quote

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.

– Robert G. Ingersoll  Famous Quote

You are a very interesting case, General. Do you know what fat file of evidence we have against you here?

– Heinrich Muller  Famous Quote

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.

– Heinrich Muller  Famous Quote

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

– Heinrich Muller  Famous Quote

Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked.

– Heinrich Muller  Famous Quote

You are in the hands of the Gestapo. Don't imagine that we shall show you the slightest consideration. The Fuhrer has already shown the world that he is invincible and soon he will come and liberate the people of England from the Jews and Plutocrats such as you. It is war and Germany is fighting for her existence. You are in the greatest danger and if you want to live another day must be very careful.

– Heinrich Muller  Famous Quote

Socialism is possible only in a state that is united domestically and free internationally. The bourgeoisie (capitalists) and Marxism are responsible for failing to reach both goals, domestic unity and international freedom. No matter how national and social these two forces present themselves, they are the sworn enemies of a socialist national state. We must therefore break both groups politically. The lines of German socialism are sharp, and our path is clear. We are against the political bourgeoisie, and for genuine nationalism! We are against Marxism, but for true socialism! We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature! We are for the National Socialist German Workers Party!

– Joseph Goebbels  Famous Quote

Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and regaining German freedom. Socialism, therefore, is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total fighting brotherhood with the forward striving energies of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing; a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is everything, the future, freedom, the fatherland.

– Joseph Goebbels  Famous Quote

We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.

– Joseph Goebbels  Famous Quote

Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.

– George Orwell  Famous Quote

I am a socialist. I see no class and no social estate before me, but that community of the Volk (the people), made up of people who are liked by blood, united by a language, and subject to a same general fate.

– Adolf Hitler  Famous Quote

The nationalization of the masses can be successfully achieved only if, in the positive struggle to win the soul of the people, those who spread the international poison among them are exterminated.

– Adolf Hitler  Famous Quote

With Germany’s financial situation worsening by the day, the Nazi leadership in Berlin was keen to forge ahead with its annexation of Czechoslovakia and its domestic pogroms against Jews. The state treasury needed more money. Despite various accounting tricks, the government was just barely avoiding bankruptcy; if nothing was done, Germany’s financial problems would quickly be laid bare. The only hope was to go on the offensive.

– Gotz Aly  Famous Quote

We worked and governed with incredible elan. We really ruled. For the bureaucrats of the Ministry the contrast to the Weimar Republic was stark. Party chatter in the Reichstag was no longer heard. The language of the bureaucracy was rid of the paralyzing formula: technically right but politically impossible.

– Hjalmar Schact  Famous Quote

...in practice the Reichsbank and the Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs had no intention of allowing the radical activists of the SA, the shopfloor militants of the Nazi party or Gauleiter commissioners to dictate the course of events. Under the slogan of “the strong state”, the ministerial bureaucracy fashioned a new national structure of economic regulation.

– Adam Tooze  Famous Quote

The conception of property has experienced a fundamental change. The individualistic conception of the State - a result of the liberal spirit- must give way to the concept that communal welfare precedes individual welfare.

– Gunter Reimann  Famous Quote

This means that a people cannot be made “national” according to the signification attached to that word by our bourgeois class today - that is to say, nationalism with many reservations- but national in the vehement and extreme sense.

– Adolf Hitler  Famous Quote

A people that fails to preserve the purity of its racial blood thereby destroys the unity of the soul of the national in all its manifestations. A disintegrated national character is the inevitable consequence of a process of disintegration in the blood.

– Adolf Hitler  Famous Quote

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.

– Mario Puzo  Famous Quote

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

– Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you.

– Albert Jay Nock  Famous Quote

That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.

– H. L. Mencken  Famous Quote

What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

– C. S. Lewis  Famous Quote

The gods of war have reawakened me. They've ignited my ego and want me to go to war again.

– Mike Tyson  Famous Quote

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

– Bruce Lee  Famous Quote

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt  Famous Quote

If you want to be happy, be...

– Leo Tolstoy  Famous Quote

It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

What you seek is seeking you.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

– Rumi  Famous Quote

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

– Rumi  Famous Quote

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him.

– Gabriel García Márquez  Famous Quote

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. That government is best which governs least.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

[I]f we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

– Thomas Jefferson  Famous Quote

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

– Justice William O. Douglas  Famous Quote

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.

– James Madison  Famous Quote

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

– C.S. Lewis  Famous Quote

My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so.

– George Washington  Famous Quote

The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.

– Clarence Manion  Famous Quote

By a declaration, liberty is born. With courage she is nourished, and with unceasing commitment she is guarded.

– Eric Schaub  Famous Quote

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.

– Justice Thurgood Marshall  Famous Quote

Two hundred ten years ago, the people who drafted our Bill of Rights decided that banning books wasn't the way to handle disagreements. They thought the best thing was more speech. It is a pity that county commissioners in 2002 don't agree.

– Matt Coles  Famous Quote

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

– Friedrich Hegel  Famous Quote

Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

– Justice Robert H. Jackson  Famous Quote

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

– John Goodwin  Famous Quote

All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.

– George Mason  Famous Quote

What is possible for me is possible for you.

– Frederick Douglass  Famous Quote

The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator, to the whole human race; and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice. Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

– Alexander Hamilton  Famous Quote

The real haves are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real have nots are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

– Eric Hoffer  Famous Quote

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

– Calvin Coolidge  Famous Quote

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

– Epictetus  Famous Quote

What shall be done with the four million slaves if they are emancipated? ... Primarily, it is a question less for man than for God -- less for human intellect than for the laws of nature to solve. It assumes that nature has erred; that the law of liberty is a mistake; that freedom, though a natural want of the human soul, can only be enjoyed at the expense of human welfare, and that men are better off in slavery than they would or could be in freedom; that slavery is the natural order of human relations, and that liberty is an experiment. What shall be done with them? Our answer is, do nothing with them; mind your business, and let them mind theirs. Your doing with them is their greatest misfortune. They have been undone by your doings, and all they now ask, and really have need of at your hands, is just to let them alone. They suffer by every interference, and succeed best by being let alone.

– Frederick Douglass  Famous Quote

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

– George Pataki  Famous Quote

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

– Alexandre Dumas  Famous Quote

All for one and one for all.

– Alexandre Dumas  Famous Quote

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

– Alexandre Dumas  Famous Quote

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

– Alexandre Dumas  Famous Quote

Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.

– Baruch Spinoza  Famous Quote

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

– Thomas Babington Macaulay  Famous Quote

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  Famous Quote

We believe the picture painters of the mass media are artfully creating landscapes for us which deliberately hide the real picture. In this book we will show you how to discover the hidden picture in the landscapes presented to us daily through newspapers, radio and television.

– Gary Allen  Famous Quote

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

– Elias Root Beadle  Famous Quote

Contrary to the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation’s economy. The issue of legal ownership, they explained, is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property—so long as the state reserves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.

– Leonard Peikoff  Famous Quote

The ideal type of the Communist is a man in whom all individual, emotional, and unconscious elements have been reduced to a minimum and subjected to the control of an iron will, informed by a supple intellect. That intellect is totally at the service of a single and compelling idea, made incarnate in the Communist Party: the concept of History as an inexorable god whose ways are revealed ‘scientifically’ through the doctrine and method of Marxism-Leninism.

– Frank Straus Meyer  Famous Quote

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free -- which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

– Alan Barth  Famous Quote

Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.

– W. Lance Bennett  Famous Quote

Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment, too. It guarantees my free speech as it does their freedom of the press… There is room for all of us – and for our divergent views – under the First Amendment.

– Spiro Agnew  Famous Quote

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

– President Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.

– Adolf Hitler  Famous Quote

Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff -- watch out! and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff -- watch out!

– Walter E. Williams  Famous Quote

This is why political correctness, or Cultural Marxism,... lends itself so fashionably to easy labels. Transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, bigoted, Uncle Tom, white privilege, mainsplaining. All of these are slapped on people with politically incorrect opinions in an attempt to silence you. ... Hate speech is inextricably tied to political correctness, or Cultural Marxism, and that creates intellectual conformity -- or intellectual authoritarianism. And that’s where you start to see things like “safe spaces” or “trigger warnings” or speakers banned from campus, or people with unpopular opinions banned from social media.

– Steven Crowder  Famous Quote

The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

– Robert H. Jackson  Famous Quote

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

– Walt Whitman  Famous Quote

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Famous Quote

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson  Famous Quote

[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

– John Adams  Famous Quote

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.