2021 August 06
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"Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. Freedom of money and freedom of banking... are the principles that must guide our steps." |
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch." |
"If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist." |
2021 August 04
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"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures." |
"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." |
"Honor lies in honest toil." |
2021 August 03
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"The general object was to produce a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origins, every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy." |
"[L]iberty, or the absence of coercion, or the leaving people to think, speak, and act as they please, is in itself a good thing. It is the object of a favourable presumption. The burden of proving it inexpedient always lies, and wholly lies, on those who wish to abridge it by coercion, whether direct or indirect." |
"Liberty is not a cruise ship full of pampered passengers. Liberty is a man-of-war, and we are all crew." |
2021 August 02
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"To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." |
"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." |
"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues." |
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