Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
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There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Evil comes from the abuse of free will.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.
If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.
It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
