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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established… — George Washington
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control. — Ronald Reagan
In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they… — Joseph Story
As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from… — Alexander Hamilton
Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual. — Thomas Jefferson
We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to… — Ronald Reagan
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable… — Thomas Jefferson
States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct. — Alexander Hamilton
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights,… — Ronald Reagan
As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive… — John Dickinson
[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain… — Charles Edward Merriam
In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of… — Woodrow Wilson
But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well… — James Madison
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the… — Thomas Jefferson
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government… — Randolph Bourne
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and… — George Orwell
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is… — Immanuel Kant
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. — Unknown Author
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born... — Aldous Huxley
In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for… — Mark Twain
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the… — Lewis H. Lapham
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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