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Truth need only be spoken.
-- Eric Schaub		 
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
-- Eric Schaub		 
The more I truly learn, I realize the less I truly know.
-- Eric Schaub		 
We are the living. There are those that have preceded us, and there are those that will follow us, but we are here now.. The river flows, we are but a drop, and it matters...
-- Eric Schaub		 
Remember, the sky starts at your feet.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Freedom has never been free. Sometimes it costs everything you've got.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Standing up to a tyrant has always been illegal and dangerous. There is no guarantee but one -- to not live like a slave, nor to die like one.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Among the mighty are those who recognize beauty as power, and power as beautiful.
-- Eric Schaub		 
It takes two wings to fly.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Every party skews the facts to their advantage, and inevitably, the minority party must resort to telling the truth.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us?
-- Eric Schaub		 
There is no Freedom without Courage.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Life is a gift. Freedom is a responsibility.
-- Eric Schaub		 
By a Declaration, Liberty is born. With Courage she is nourished, and with unceasing Commitment she is guarded.
-- Eric Schaub		 
The truth is more important than its teller.
-- Eric Schaub		 
The process of liberation is continuous.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Some truths need to be learned from the inside.
-- Eric Schaub		 
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		 
The truth doesn't sell. It is high in supply, but low in demand.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Our inalienable rights cannot shield us from our own follies.
-- Eric Schaub		 
The 'strength' of the People becomes weak when we don't 'exercise' our rights.
-- Eric Schaub		 
A juror who is forced by the judge’s instructions to convict a defendant whose conduct he applauds or at the least feels is justifiable, will lose respect for the legal system. . . . A juror compelled to decide against his own judgment will rebel at the system that made him a traitor to himself.
-- Alan W. Scheflin		 
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
-- Felix Emmanuel Schelling		 
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
-- Felix E. Schelling		 
If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend.
-- Irwin Schiff		 
Families would be in better shape if our tax code didn’t push married mothers who wish to raise their own children into the labor force, in large part to pay for a welfare state that encourages unskilled, unmarried teenagers to bear illegitimate children the rest of us must support.
-- Lisa Schiffen		 
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		 
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.		 
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.		 
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.		 
Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue...
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.		 
Integrity is its own reward.
-- Dr. Laura Schlessinger		 
The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.
-- Dr. Laura Schlessinger		 
Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government – but the reverse… If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom…
-- Benno C. Schmidt		 
The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind….Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning…
-- Benno C. Schmidt		 
Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.
-- Kurt L. Schmoke		 
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
-- Bruce Schneier		 
For thousands of years, the tireless effort of productive men and women has been spent trying to reduce the distance between communities of the world by reducing the costs of commerce and trade. Over the same span of history, the slothful and incompetent protectionist has endlessly sought to erect barriers in order to prohibit competition—thus, effectively moving communities farther apart. When trade is cut off entirely, the real producers may as well be on different planets. The protectionist represents the worst in humanity: fear of change, fear of challenge, and the jealous envy of genius. The protectionist is not against the use of every kind of force, even warfare, to crush his rival. If mankind is to survive, then these primeval fears must be defeated.
-- Ken Schoolland		 
Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.
-- Ken Schoolland		 
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer		 
All truth passes through 3 stages.\\ First, it is ridiculed.\\ Second, it is violently opposed.\\ Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer		 
Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people.
-- J. Neil Schulman		 
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		 
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles M. Schulz		 
The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is unapproved of not only intellectually but also morally.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter		 
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
-- Edwin M. Schur		 
[When a victimless criminal] is treated as an enemy of society, he almost necessarily becomes one. Forced into criminal acts, immersed in underworld-related supply networks, and ever-conscious of the need to evade the police, his outlooks as well as behavior become more and more anti-social.
-- Edwin M. Schur		 
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-- Carl Schurz		 
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
-- Carl Schurz		 
The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective -- the race -- is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of  'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism -- that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage.
-- Peter Schwartz		 
Character is the single most important ingredient of leadership. Proper leadership would have prevented the wars in Kosovo and Somalia.
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf		 
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf		 
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf		 
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
-- Albert Schweitzer		 
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found a way to serve.
-- Albert Schweitzer		 
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
-- C. P. Scott		 
CRIMINAL: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
-- Howard Scott		 
The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.
-- James C. Scott		 
It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.
-- Rick Scott		 
O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
-- Sir Walter Scott		 
O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
-- Sir Walter Scott		 
We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms.
-- Brent Scowcroft		 
The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.
-- Roger Scruton		 
Socialism, failing to work as it always does. This time in Venezuela. You talk about giving everybody something free and all of a sudden, there’s no food to eat. And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela? The daughter of Hugo Chavez. Hello!
-- Vin Scully		 
The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever.
-- John Seabrook		 
True Liberty and Justice may require resistance to law .
-- Second Monument to Shays' Rebellion		 
If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.
-- John Selden		 
Union bosses will continue to use workers’ dues money as a slush fund to support controversial causes and organizations as long as union officials are empowered to order a worker fired simply for refusing to pay money to the union.
-- Patrick Semmons		 
Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency....Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens. ... A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency....from, at least, the Civil War in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency.
-- Senate Report, 93rd Congress		 
Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca		 
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca		 
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca		 
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca		 
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca		 
A sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca		 


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