It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
Freedom ultimately means the right of the other people to do things you don’t approve of.
One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.
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If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's--eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
