2018 July 27
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"Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered." |
"Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice." |
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." |
2018 July 26
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"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let every one know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it." |
"Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do." |
"Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy." |
2018 July 25
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"One byproduct of individualism is benevolence -- a general attitude of good will towards one's neighbors and fellow human beings. Benevolence is impossible in a society where people violate each others' rights." |
"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having." |
"If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral." |
2018 July 24
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"The loyalists in the beginning of the late war objected to associating, arming and fighting, in defense of our liberties, because these measures were not constitutional. A free people should always be left... with every possible power to promote their own happiness." |
"We find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another." |
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." |
2018 July 23
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"An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court." |
"The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have." |
"The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience." |
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