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- Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.
- Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
- Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they…
- By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum.…
- Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.
- What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects…
- In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people…
- Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with…
- The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they…
- ...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain).…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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