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    ...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.

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This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.
(US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuit
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This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.
(US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuit
against Al Franken's book).

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I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable read more

All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

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Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. read more

Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.".

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a read more

We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the read more

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".

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Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the read more

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

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