I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God,… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
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My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for… — Mary Slessor Copy Share Image
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
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We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
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I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that,… — King James I Copy Share Image
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