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Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to… — Philip Kapleau
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love,… — Goswami Kriyananda
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself — Jimmy Carter
Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. — Conrad Hilton
What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid. — Robert Ringer
Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but… — Aldous Huxley
The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. — Thomas Paine
So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from… — John Stuart Mill
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. — Frederic Bastiat
Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes… — Ayn Rand
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never… — Alexander Hamilton
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external… — William Godwin
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. — Thomas Jefferson
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that… — Thomas Paine
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him. — Max Stirner
Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual. — Josiah Warren
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was… — Oscar Wilde
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of… — Edward McKendree Bounds

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