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    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
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    George R.R. Martin
    “When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: censorship
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    Victor Hugo
    “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: inspirational
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    Frédéric Bastiat
    “Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
    ― Frederic Bastiat
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    Samuel Adams
    “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”
    ― Samuel Adams
    tags: meaning, tyranny, words
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: patriotism
    257 likes

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    Edward Abbey
    “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: activism, dissent, moral-courage, patriotism, protest
    554 likes

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    Ron Paul
    “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”
    ― Ron Paul, The Revolution: A Manifesto
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Where liberty is, there is my country.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: government
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”
    ― Robert G. Ingersoll
    tags: liberty
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    James Bovard
    “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
    ― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
    tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrase-gary-strand
    820 likes

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    James Madison
    “If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
    ― James Madison
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    Samuel Adams
    “It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
    ― Samuel Adams
    tags: activism, minority
    171 likes

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    Frédéric Bastiat
    “Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.”
    ― Frédéric Bastiat
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    Bob Dylan
    “Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.”
    ― Bob Dylan
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    George Washington
    “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
    ― George Washington
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    Ron Paul
    “Military force is justified only in self-defense; naked aggression is the province of dictators and rogue states.”
    ― Ron Paul
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Thomas Brackett Reed
    “One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils of the world can be cured by legislation.”
    ― Thomas Brackett Reed
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    “No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
    ― Gideon J. Tucker
    tags: government, humor, politics
    163 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    tags: condescending, income-tax, pay, taxes, tyranny
    659 likes

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    Edmund Burke
    “The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”
    ― Edmond Burke
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: courage, despotism, liberty, life, timid
    134 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
    tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment
    823 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
    ― H. L. Mencken
    tags: government
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    Henry George
    “It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.”
    ― Henry George
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    Barry M. Goldwater
    “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
    ― Barry Goldwater
    tags: conservatism, extremism, freedom, moderation, republican, speech, vice, virtue
    70 likes



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