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America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way. – Ayn Rand Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. – John Maynard Keynes Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty. – Calvin Coolidge Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
It is unfortunate, that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, & even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
In a massacre, there’s no decent place to stand. – Leonard Cohen Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
There is no influence like the influence of habit. – Gilbert Parker Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert. – Arthur Young Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Freedom is not something that can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. – James Baldwin Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago. – Robert Bork Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another. – Edmund Burke Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Historians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government. – Reuven Brenner Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators. – William Henry Harrison Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Worse than war is the very fear of war. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life. – Henry David Thoreau Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real. – Douglas MacArthur Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ... – John C. Calhoun Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching against every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings. – James Madison Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. – E. M. Forster Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. – Benjamin Franklin Famous Quote	added 4 years ago

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