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Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work." — T. Harv Eker
The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from… — Harry Browne
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his… — Frederic Bastiat
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,… — Frederic Bastiat
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun:… — Frederic Bastiat
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:… — Algernon Sidney
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to… — Thomas Paine
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took… — Harry Browne
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. — Abraham Lincoln
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of… — Ludwig von Mises
The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which… — Samuel Gompers
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period… — Charles Evans Hughes
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of… — Herbert Spencer
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to… — William Howard Taft
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step… — Alexander Graham Bell
Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance. — J.R. Miller
There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires.… — Walter Russell
Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God. — Wallace D. Wattles
Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself. — Wallace D. Wattles
The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might… — Wallace D. Wattles
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.… — Carl Sagan

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