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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #4
    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    John Green

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Thomas Sowell
    “I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
    Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

  • #7
    Thomas Sowell
    “The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #8
    Thomas Sowell
    “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #9
    Thomas Sowell
    “Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #10
    Thomas Sowell
    “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
    Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader

  • #11
    Thomas Sowell
    “It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”
    Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions

  • #12
    Thomas Sowell
    “Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #13
    William Pitt the Younger
    “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
    William Pitt the Younger

  • #14
    Milton Friedman
    “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
    Milton Friedman

  • #15
    Plato
    “This and no other is the root from
    which a tyrant springs; when he
    first appears he is a protector.”
    Plato

  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #17
    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #18
    C.S. Lewis
    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
    C. S. Lewis

  • #19
    Larken Rose
    “Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”
    Larken Rose

  • #20
    Malcolm X
    “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
    Malcolm X

  • #21
    H.L. Mencken
    “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
    H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

  • #22
    “Banning weapons is the most white privilege idea ever. Rich liberals scoffing at the idea that a person might need to defend their own life is a tower so ivory you can't look at it in direct sunlight. It's the personal safety equivalent of "just have the maid do it.”
    Caleb Howe

  • #23
    Samuel Adams
    “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
    Samuel Adams

  • #24
    Samuel Adams
    “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
    Samuel Adams

  • #25
    Samuel Adams
    “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”
    Samuel Adams

  • #26
    Samuel Adams
    “The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
    Samuel Adams

  • #27
    Jonathan Sacks
    “Broadcasting is being replaced by narrowcasting. The difference is that broadcasting speaks to a mixed public, exposing them to a range of views. Narrowcasting speaks to a targeted public and exposes them only to facts and opinions that support their prejudices. It fragments a public into a set of sects of the like-minded.”
    Jonathan Sacks, Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence



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