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| America's Freedom
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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| Education
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
-- Albert Einstein
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| Freedom Defined
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
-- George Orwell
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| Prosecution and Proportionality
A prosecutor who does not understand proportionality and who regularly uses the threat of unjust and overreaching charges to extort plea bargains from defendants regardless of their guilt is a danger to the life and liberty of anyone who might cross her path.
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| Crime, Punishment, and Proportionality
I get wrong. But I also get proportionality. And if you don’t get both, you don’t deserve to have the power of the United States government behind you.
-- Lawrence Lessig
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| Legislative Sessions
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Gideon Tucker
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| Life is Tough
Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
-- John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima
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| 2 Kinds of Happiness
There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter ...
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| Personal Accountability
We must reject the notion that, every time a law is broken, society is guilty and not the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
-- Ronald Reagan
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| A Central Purpose
A central purpose serves to integrate all the other concerns of a man’s life. It establishes the hierarchy, the relative importance, of his values, it saves him from pointless inner conflicts, it permits him to enjoy life on a wide scale and to carry that ...
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| Taxes and Waste
Sending more taxpayer dollars to Washington isn’t the solution to this situation; cutting wasteful government spending and enabling Americans to keep more of their own money is.
-- Rand Paul
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| Socialist Snobbery
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies - socialist politics and modernist art - have at least one feature in common: they are both forms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name ...
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| Taxes vs. Spending
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
-- Ronald Reagan
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| Personal Philosophy
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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| Academic Purpose
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| Rights and Voting
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the ...
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| Generations of Study
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
-- John Adams
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| Educational Content
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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| Religion of Kindness
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
-- Dalai Lama
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| Passing On Knowledge
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
-- Marcus Aurelius
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| Who Rules You?
To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
-- Voltaire
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| Defending One's Rights
Each of us has a natural right — from God — to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two.
-- Frederic ...
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| Origins of Women's Rights
The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.
-- Susan B. Anthony ...
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| On Re-living Your Life
"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and ...
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| Government Force
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
-- Ayn Rand
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