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17188 quotes by 7215 authors
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[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
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It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt…
— Edmund Burke
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If men be good, government cannot be bad.
— William Penn
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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort…
— Charles Tilly
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The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority…
— William E. Simon
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There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience…
— Emma Goldman
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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
— Clarence Thomas
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There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
— Frank Chodorov
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We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop…
— Frank Chodorov
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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you…
— Oprah Winfrey
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In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing…
— T. Harv Eker
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
— Seneca the Younger
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There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve.
— Esther Hicks
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You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive…
— Khalil Gibran
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The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to…
— Jim Rohn
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
— Katherine Anne Porter
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Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.
— Carl Jung
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One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
— Abraham Maslow
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