You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by… — Ejnar Hertzsprung Copy Share Image
During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it.… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I was pretty young when I bought my first place, and at that time didn't really view it as an investment. After… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because… — Lewis Henry Morgan Copy Share Image
Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S.… — Viet D. Dinh Copy Share Image
On a nationwide basis, I would guess that the various churches would have to pay annually an amount at least equal to… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
