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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie and the lie can only be maintained by violence."

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"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

"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."

— Friedrich Hegel

"Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government."

— Hugo Black

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of legislation."

— Jeremy Bentham

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

— John F. Kennedy

"Liberty consists in doing what one desires."

— John Stuart Mill

"No matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth."

— Joseph Goebbels

"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need."

— Karl Marx

"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

"Propaganda system works because it recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies."

— Noam Chomsky

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

— Tacitus

"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

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

— Thucydides

"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

— Edward Abbey

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."

— Robert Orben

"Democracy is the road to socialism."

— Karl Max

"Democracy is the worst form of government; except for all the others that have been tried."

— Winston Churchill

"Every society has the criminals that it deserves."

— Havelock Ellis

"Free speech absolutist is wrong because it invites someone to do hate: to yell fire in a crowded theatre."

"History is written by the winners."

"I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them."

— Hugo Black

"Ideologies have the same answer to everything, they know who the enemies are and go for them."

"If I were to give liberty to the press, my power would not last three days."

— Napoleon Bonaparte

"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain."

"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

"It is legal because I want it."

— Louis XIV

"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

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Religion is what keeps the poor from killing the rich."

— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

— Samuel Johnson

"Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal."

— Milton Friedman

"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

"Swing first, ask questions later."

— Topeka State

"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

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."

— Niels Bohr

"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."

— Plato

"The public arena is where ideas go to battle."

"The steeper the dominance hierarchy the more homicides. The bigger the gap the more unstable the society."

— Jordan Peterson

"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

"Those who worry about worldly affairs must be diligent and cautious."

— Zeng Guofan

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

— Isaac Asimov

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

— John B. Barnhill

"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

"Workers of the world, unite!"

— Karl Marx

"Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor'—infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people."

— Wendell Phillips

"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

"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

"You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them."

— Napoleon Bonaparte