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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
2.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
3.
A question arose in my mind: Was Kennedy a political genius who truly unleashed the forces of American liberalism, or was he merely a rat cunning enough to take advantage of the new medium of television in order to become the first 'television President'?
4.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
5.
Aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben
6.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Max
7.
Democracy is the worst form of government; except for all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
8.
Every society has the criminals that it deserves.
Havelock Ellis
9.
From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.
Karl Marx
10.
Free speech absolutist is wrong because it invites someone to do hate: to yell fire in a crowded theatre.
11.
History is written by the winners.
12.
I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
Hugo Black
13.
Ideologies have the same answer to everything, they know who the enemies are and go for them. It shades into dogma.
14.
If I were to give liberty to the press, my power would not last three days.
Napoleon Bonaparte
15.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
16.
It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.
Milton Friedman
17.
It is legal because I want it.
Louis XIV
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It is no small matter to know whether we are going to live in a society in which personal rights, individual rights, take precedence over collective rights. It is no minor question of secondary importance to know whether we are going to live in a society in which all citizens are equal before the law and before the State itself. And it is no trivial matter to determine if there will be a spirit of brotherhood and of sharing in the society we are going to live in... When collective rights take precedence over individual freedoms.
Pierre Trudeau
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
John Stuart Mill
20.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
21.
Religion is what keeps the poor from killing the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
22.
No matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
Joseph Goebbels
23.
Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
Hugo Black
24.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Friedrich Hegel
25.
Propaganda system works because it recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies.
Noam Chomsky
26.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
27.
Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
Milton Friedman
28.
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
29.
Swing first, ask questions later.
Topeka State
30.
That these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr
32.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Plato
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
34.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus
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The public arena is where ideas go to battle.
36.
There are 3 types of leaders in this world: the leader that's loved; the leader that's hated; and the leader that people barely know he exists. When the work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
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The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
Thucydides
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The steeper the dominance hierarchy the more homicides. The bigger the gap the more unstable the society.
Jordan Peterson
39.
There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. There are shared values—openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice.
Pierre Trudeau
40.
Those who worry about worldly affairs must be diligent and cautious.
Zeng Guofan
41.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
42.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
44.
We must be engaged in the cultural battles—even when we grow weary—for truth is at stake in every arena and eternal destinies hang in the balance.
Charles Colson
45.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
46.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
John B. Barnhill
47.
Who gets to define what's hate speech? The person you least want to, because that's the person that will enforce it on you.
Jordan Peterson
48.
Workers of the world, unite!
Karl Marx
49.
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor'—infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Wendell Phillips
50.
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvelous resources.
Marshall McLuhan
51.
You can't force a group of people to do something, because it has an enforcement cost. It's better if they do it on their own free will.
Jordan Peterson
52.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
