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2014 July 11
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"Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world.
Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful
political weapons man has ever forged." |
"Government is too big and too important
to be left to the politicians." |
"The jaws of power are always open to devour,
and her arm is always stretched out, if possible,
to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing." |
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2014 July 10
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"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." |
"The inherent vice of capitalism is
the uneven division of blessings,
while the inherent virtue of socialism is
the equal division of misery." |
"That government is best which governs the least,
because its people discipline themselves." |
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2014 July 09
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"Morality and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free." |
"This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree;
that if they all say what they think,
a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error;
that in the competition of the marketplace of ideas,
the sounder ideas will in the long run win out." |
"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source -- from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives." |
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2014 July 08
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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." |
"American democracy must be a failure
because it places the supreme authority
in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant
part of the society." |
"Democracy and liberty are not the same.
Democracy is little more than mob rule,
while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual." |
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2014 July 07
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"Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it." |
"In recent years we have witnessed numerous marches on Washington in which one group or another has demanded new “rights.” Frequently, such rights have not meant freedom from state control, but rather entitlement to state action, protection, or subsidy. In the process of yielding to the “will of the people” and creating new rights, the state invariably enlarges itself and its bureaucracy. Each new right seems to demand a new agency to guarantee it, administer it, or deliver it." |
"A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups
start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left." |
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