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A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

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The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is…
The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes…
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.…
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of…
There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their…
Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.
The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the…
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof…
What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.
Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.
Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of…

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Docility is the observable half of reason. — George Santayana
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin
The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
To the shepherds alone was given all power to teach, to judge, to direct; on the faithful was imposed the duty of… — Pope Leo XIII
The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is… — Teresa of Avila
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is… — Ayn Rand
In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is,… — James Henry Hammond
The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim… — H. L. Mencken
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. — John Calvin
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once… — M.F.K. Fisher
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the… — Carl Sagan
A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character. — Henry Hazlitt

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