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| Imprisoning Drug Users
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
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| Of Popes and Emperors
For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies; that is, to the old ...
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| Waking Up
Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, ...
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| Love at First Sight
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this ...
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| The Forbidden Act
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
-- Voltaire
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| Dying Young
Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| Think
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
-- Thomas A. Edison
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| The Concerned
[ed. Note that this is a follow-on to yesterday's quote.]
Here’s another quiz… Name ten people who have taught you something worthwhile. Name five friends who have helped you in a difficult time. Easier? It was for me, too. The lesson? The people who make ...
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| Wealth and Fame are Fleeting
Name the ten wealthiest men in the world. Name eight people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. How did you do? I didn’t do well either. With the exception of the trivia hounds, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday too well. Surprising how ...
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| Kick in the Pants
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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| Good Authority
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it ...
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| Self-Defense
The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals
-- James Monroe
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| Governing People
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-- John Adams
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| Giving them Hell
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
-- Harry S. Truman
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| What Weapons of War Mean
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| Safety in Battle
My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would ...
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| Life and Liberty Precede Law
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
-- Frederic Bastiat
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| Created Equal
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.
-- Glenn Beck
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| Hail to the Librarians
I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from ...
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| A Clear View
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
-- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
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| Patriot's Duty
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
-- Thomas Paine
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| Peace and Trouble
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
-- Thomas Paine
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| Rights and Claims
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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| Life Is
Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
-- Sai Baba
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| Mom and Dad
If you vote for government to be your mommy and daddy, don't be surprised when it monitors your Facebook activity.
-- David Burge (@iowahawkblog)
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