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2010 March 12
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"A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject." |
"We have too many high sounding words,
and too few actions that correspond with them." |
"Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool." |
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2010 March 11
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"Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery." |
"To believe in something,
and not to live it, is dishonest." |
"Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded." |
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2010 March 10
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"No one is free who is not master of himself." |
"Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom,
and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living." |
"The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot." |
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2010 March 09
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"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." |
"True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd,
but see not there the worse form of slavery,
which is when the herd crushes out the man." |
"While democracy must have its organizations and controls,
its vital breath is individual liberty." |
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2010 March 08
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"The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself." |
"If you think we are free today,
you know nothing about tyranny
and even less about freedom." |
"The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours." |
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