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Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
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It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
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