It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - CHARLES A. BEARD
When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin
Nannyism is fascism with training wheels. - R. L. Root
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. - Albert Einstein
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor. - Ayn Rand
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demand for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen. - Ayn Rand
"If it were true that a heavy concentration of industry is destructive to human life, one would find life expectancy declining in the more advanced countries. But it has been rising steadily. Here are the figures on life expectancy in the United States:
1900 - 47.3 years
1920 - 53 years
1940 - 60 years
1968 - 70.2 years (the latest figures compiled [as of January 1971])
Anyone over 30 years of age today, give a silent "Thank you" to the nearest, grimiest, sootiest smokestacks you can find. - Ayn Rand
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
If the law does not respect the individual, the individual will not respect the law. - David Wallace Croft
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1874
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