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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
-- Elbert Hubbard		 
The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.
-- Elbert Hubbard		 
There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.
-- Elbert Hubbard		 
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
-- Elbert Hubbard		 
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
-- Elbert Hubbard		 
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		 
Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
-- Frank McKinney Hubbard		 
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
-- Frank McKinney Hubbard		 
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
-- Kin Hubbard		 
Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker" let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
-- Kin Hubbard		 
l'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.
-- L. Ron Hubbard		 
I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.
-- Mike Huckabee		 
That is reserved expressly to the States and is not granted to the Federal Government by our national charter. The Federal Government has nothing to do under the Constitution with the preservation of public order. To pass this bill is to pass a bill for an unconstitutional purpose, under the guise of regulating interstate commerce.
-- George Huddleston		 
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.
-- Jack Hugh		 
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.
-- Jack Hugh		 
Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'
-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes		 
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes		 
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes		 
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes		 
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.
-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes		 
Emergency does not create power. Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.
-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes		 
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes		 
The Constitution is what the judges say it is.
-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes		 
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes		 
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.
-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes		 
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.
-- Justice Charles Evans Hughes		 
The right to comment freely and criticize the action, opinions, and judgment of courts is of primary importance to the public generally. Not only is it good for the public; but it has a salutary effect on courts and judges as well.
-- James P. Hughes		 
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.
-- Robert Hughes		 
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
-- Victor Hugo		 
Have no fear of robbers or murderers.  They are external dangers, petty dangers.  We should fear ourselves.  Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders.  The great dangers are within us.  Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses?  Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
-- Victor Hugo		 
Liberation is not deliverance.
-- Victor Hugo		 
[G]overnment theft of private money and redistribution by a government elite is communism not democracy. ... Communism has already been tried for over 70 years, and it doesn't work because people work to support themselves, not their neighbors. When the rewards are confiscated and redistributed to others, people produce less or stop producing altogether. The quantity of "goods in common" declines until the system finally collapses and everybody is hungry, not just "the poor." Then totalitarianism steps in to force people to produce (ask the Russians, the Poles, the Estonians).
-- Don Hull		 
Fiat-money systems tend to make people insatiable in their quest for ever higher monetary returns on their investments,
-- Jorg Guido Hulsmann		 
You can imagine, then, how this inflation and debt-based system, over time, will begin to change the culture of a society and its behavior. We become more materialistic than under a natural monetary system. We can’t just sit on our savings anymore, and we have to watch our investments constantly, and think about revenue constantly, because if it is not earning enough, we are actively getting poorer.
-- Jorg Guido Hulsmann		 
In a fiat money society you are more likely to increase your returns by remaining in debt and continuing to chase monetary revenue indefinitely by leveraging more and more funds.
-- Jorg Guido Hulsmann		 
It's OK to lie. It's OK to steal. It's OK to have premarital sex. It's OK to cheat or to kill if these things are part of your value system, and you clarified these values for yourself. The important thing is not what values you choose, but that you have chosen them for yourself and without coercion of parents, spouse, priest, friends, ministers or social pressure of any kind.
-- Humanist Curriculum		 
We have reached a turning point in human history where the best option is to transcend the limits of national sovereignty and to move towards the building of a world community...
-- Humanist Manifesto (Article 12)		 
We deplore the division of humankind on nationalistic grounds. We have reached a turning point in human history where the best option is to transcend the limits of national sovereignty and to move towards the building of a world community. We look toward the development of a system of world law, world order, based upon transnational government.
-- Humanist Manifesto, Article 12		 
Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few.
-- David Hume		 
Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
-- David Hume		 
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
-- David Hume		 
Southerners did not stop with an open defense of slavery. They went on to attack northern society for its 'wage slavery' and 'exploitation of workers,' using arguments repeated by socialist critics of capitalism. The southern writer who developed these arguments most extensively was George Fitzhugh, a Virginia planter and lawyer. His two books were provocatively entitled Sociology for the South: Or the Failure of the Free Society and Cannibals All! Or Slaves Without Masters. In them, Fitzhugh defended slavery as a practical form of socialism that provided contented slaves with paternalistic masters, thereby eliminating harsh conflicts between employers and allegedly free workers. 'A Southern farm is the beau ideal of Communism; it is a joint concern, in which the slave ... is far happier, because ... he is always sure of support.' ... 'The best governed countries, and which have prospered the most, have always been distinguished for the number and stringency of their laws,' he wrote; 'liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct.'
-- Jeffrey Rogers Hummel		 
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey		 
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey		 
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey		 
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey		 
If [anyone] can find in Title VII ... any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey		 
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent and debate.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey		 
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey		 
There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey		 
None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey		 
All children behave as well as they are treated.
-- Jan Hunt		 
Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.
-- Lawrence Hunter		 
Some of the problems of governance in the United States today stem from an excess of democracy ... The effective operation of a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and non-involvement on the part of some individuals and groups.
-- Samuel Huntington		 
How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.
-- Suzanna Gratia Hupp		 
Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.
-- Anjelica Huston		 
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues…is on the way to totalitarianism and death.
-- Robert M. Hutchins		 
The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.
-- Robert M. Hutchins		 
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
-- Robert M. Hutchins		 
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert M. Hutchins		 
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
-- Robert M. Hutchins		 
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley		 
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
-- Aldous Huxley		 


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