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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own… — Samuel Adams
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from… — Edmund Burke
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of… — William Cobbett
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was… — Alexander MacLaren
It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer… — Charles Spurgeon
Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart. — Charles Spurgeon
He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down,… — Alain de Botton
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.… — Henry George
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law. — Thomas Hobbes
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that,… — Thomas Hobbes
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to… — Thomas Jefferson
I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality. — Thomas Jefferson
The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations,… — Peter Kropotkin
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. — Eugene McCarthy
You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State… — Albert J. Nock
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. — Ayn Rand
You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack. — Chris Rock
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent… — Francois Fenelon

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