There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.Charles Kingsley |
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| There are two ways of
spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton |
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| A thing is not necessarily
true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde |
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| Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events and small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| A truth that’s told with
bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake |
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| You can never do a kindness
too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The only thing needed
for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
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| "One of the greatest delusions of the world is the HOPE that the EVILS of this world are to be CURED BY LEGISLATION." Thomas B. Reed 1886 | ||
| "There is nothing worse
than aggressive stupidity."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| "A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves" --Edward R Murrow | ||
| "There are four boxes
to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please
use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt |
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| "You should not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered." Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the U.S. | ||
| "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." ~ Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994) James Bovard | ||
| "For you are the witch Magrit, the horrid harridan, the repulsive termagant, the fustigant fury, the execrable harpy, the verminous virago, the loathsome she-wolf." -- Eric Flint, 'Forward the Mage' | ||
| "To predict the behavior
of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they
will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest
possible expenditure of intelligence."
- Friedrich Nietzsche |
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