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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.
Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.
[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard read more
[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright read more
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Glory is the child of peril.
Glory is the child of peril.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
