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Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and… — Thomas Sowell
Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money. — Joseph Sobran
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if… — Marilyn vos Savant
Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have. — Richard S. Salant
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit. — Bertrand Russell
My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires… — Charley Reese
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
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one. — Elvis Presley
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful,… — Wendell Phillips
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves. — Thomas Paine
When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for… — Thomas Paine
The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that those who every… — James Otis
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. — Thomas Paine
The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment… — P.J. O'Rourke
There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human… — P.J. O'Rourke
Family - see Fascist State. — Benito Mussolini
Liberty consists in doing what one desires. — John Stuart Mill
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
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would… — John Stuart Mill
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable… — H. L. Mencken
Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal… — Karl Marx
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. — H. L. Mencken
One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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