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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy read more
The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.
No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would read more
No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears read more
The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is read more
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.
It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. read more
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man read more
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
