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The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue…
— James Bovard
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In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of…
— Jimmy Carter
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When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of…
— William J. Clinton
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I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me,…
— Learned Hand
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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
— Eric Hoffer
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Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
— Eric Hoffer
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The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
— Paul Harvey
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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
— Samuel Johnson
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The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
— Samuel Johnson
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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
— Laozi
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did…
— Michael Crichton
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We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.
— Paulo Coelho
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I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much…
— Nana Mouskouri
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It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world…
— Norman Lear
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People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that…
— Stephen Covey
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Human kind cannot bear much reality.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and…
— William Allen White
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Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
— John Calvin
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If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish…
— Dalai Lama
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