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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

Friedrich August von Hayek

added by Normando
1 year ago

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

Hermann Goering

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1 year ago

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor

Frank Clark

added by Normando
1 year ago

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

Carl J. Friedrich

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1 year ago

When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already. … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’

Adolf Hitler

added by Normando
1 year ago

Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

added by Normando
1 year ago

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Tad Williams

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1 year ago

What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
1 year ago

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

Richard Feynman

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people.

Margaret Thatcher

added by Normando
1 year ago

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Charles-Louis de Secondat

added by Normando
1 year ago

The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frame it, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative.

Kermit Victor Lipez

added by Normando
1 year ago

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

added by Normando
1 year ago

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

Bertrand de Jouvenel

added by Normando
1 year ago

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process

Thomas Sowell

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1 year ago

It is madness beyond compare to try to reform the world.

Moliere

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1 year ago

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

Henry Grady Weaver

added by Normando
1 year ago

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Earl Nightingale

added by Normando
1 year ago

Men being by nature all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent which is done by agreeing with other men, to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living in a secure enjoyment of their properties.

John Locke

added by Normando
1 year ago

To see the connection between OM and the creation of the Universe is Nirvana.

Rooma Mehra

added by edithd.87651
1 year ago

Just because something means nothing to you doesn't mean it's not vital or important to someone else, so try to use reason when judging someone.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
1 year ago

You will be a slave to a thing until you master it and conquer it.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
1 year ago

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Robert A. Heinlein

added by Normando
1 year ago

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

Robert Anton Wilson

added by Normando
1 year ago

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