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“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
― Frederic Bastiat, The Law

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“You should not honor men more than truth.”
― Plato

tags: honesty, honor, secrecy, truth

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#3

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.”
― John Locke

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“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
― John Locke, Second Treatise of Government

tags: equality, independence, liberty, of-the-state-of-nature

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#5

“Revolt is the right of the people”
― John Locke

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#6

“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.”
― John Locke

tags: money

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“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!”
― John Locke

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#8

“All wealth is the product of labor.”
― John Locke

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#9

“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
― John Locke

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“Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.”
― John Locke, Unknown Book 12380837

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#11

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#12

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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#13

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: atlas, shrugged

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#14

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

tags: education, experience, wisdom

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#15

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: independence

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#16

“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: excess, over-indulgence, overdoing

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#17

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: blessings, freedom, liberty

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#18

“Who is John Galt?”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: first-lines, galt, objectivism, opening-lines, philosophy, taggart

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#19

“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

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#20

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
― Milton Friedman

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#21

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
― Thomas Sowell

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#22

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”
― Ron Paul, The Revolution: A Manifesto

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#23

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
― Thomas Paine

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#24

“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”
― Frederick Bastiat

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#25

“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

tags: individualism

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“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: activism, truth-and-lies, wisdom

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#27

“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
― Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions

tags: freedom

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#28

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
― Adam Smith

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#29

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat

tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, countries, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nations, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, thugs, voluntaryism

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#30

“Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.”
― Immanuel Kant

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