[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.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".
Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the read more
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the Republican presidential nomination.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of read more
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
