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3"'... But everyone affirms he practiced Ketman and that in private he was extremely daring and precise in establishing order in the doctrines which bear his name today.' We cannot wonder, therefore, that, as a certain Persian admitted in conversation with Gobineau, 'there is not a single true Moslem in Persia.'"    -- Czeslaw Milosz in 'The Captive Mind'
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5"... socialist revolutions in particular have a peculiar habit of beginning with a man in a work shirt and ending up with a man dressed like Cap'n Crunch."   -- Kevin Williamson
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7"[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion."   -- John Locke
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9"[Nobody] has ever successfully explained to me how people who are too stupid and helpless to care for themselves are smart enough to elect individuals who will take care of them. Once you understand that contradiction, you understand how tyrannies come to [pass] around the world."   -- Anonymous
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11"[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."   -- Patrick Henry
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13"... proof that wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."   -- Thomas Jefferson
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15"As used in this discussion, cultural Marxism relates to programs and activities that arise out of Gramscian Marxism, Fabian Socialism and most directly from the Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt strategy deconstructs societies through attacks on culture by imposing a dialectic that forces unresolvable contradictions under the rubric of critical theory. The result is induced nihilism, a belief in everything that is actually the belief in nothing."    -- Rich Higgins
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17"Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country."   -- George Washington
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19"Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure."   -- Adolf Hitler
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21"Every person in America has done or said something that would keep him or her from being president. Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about 'character issues."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
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23"For some people, it is not enough that cops put themselves at risk to protect the rest of us. They want cops to risk their lives for the sake of handling criminals more gently."   -- Thomas Sowell
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25"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."   -- Albert Einstein
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27"How soon we forget history... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."    -- George Washington
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29"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."    -- James Madison
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31"I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights."   -- Abraham Lincoln
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33"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'"   -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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35"In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare’s evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because they have no ideology."    -- Theodore Dalrymple
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37"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"   -- Patrick Henry
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39"It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
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41"I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property."   -- Adolf Hitler
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43"Many of the seemingly compassionate policies promoted by the progressives in later years - whether in economics or in education - have had outcomes the opposite of what was expected. One of the tragedies of our times is that so many people judge by rhetoric, rather than by results."   -- Thomas Sowell
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45"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."   -- Thomas Sowell
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47"Robert Conquest's Three Laws of Politics:
481. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
492. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
503. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."   -- Robert Conquest
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52"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it."   -- Joseph Goebbels
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54"The majority of Americans get their news and information about what is going on with their government from entities that are licensed by and subject to punishment at the hands of that very government."   -- Neal Boortz
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56"The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."    -- Aristotle
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58"The whole political vision of the left, including socialism and communism, has failed by virtually every empirical test, in countries all around the world. But this has only led leftist intellectuals to evade and denigrate empirical evidence."   -- Thomas Sowell
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60"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as 'bad luck'."   -- Robert A. Heinlein
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62"To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."   -- George Washington
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64"To this very moment slavery continues in parts of Africa and the Islamic world. Very little noise is made about it by those who denounce the slavery of the past in the West, because there is no money to be made denouncing it and no political advantages to be gained."   -- Thomas Sowell
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66"Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. "    -- George Washington
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68"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."   -- Thomas Jefferson
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70"What distinguished Nazism from other brands of socialism and communism was not so much that it included more aspects from the political right (though there were some). What distinguished Nazism was that it forthrightly included a worldview we now associate almost completely with the political left: identity politics. This was what distinguished Nazism from doctrinaire communism, and it seems hard to argue the marriage of one leftist vision to another can somehow produce right-wing progeny."   -- Jonah Goldberg
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72"When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
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74"When someone is honestly 55% right, that's very good and there's no use wrangling. And if someone is 60% right, it's wonderful, it's great luck, and let him thank God. But what's to be said about 75% right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100% right? Whoever says he's 100% right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."    -- An old Jew of Galacia
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76"You need only 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
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78"You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"   -- Adolf Hitler
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80"1. Identify a respected institution.    
812. kill it.    
823. gut it.    
834. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.    
84#lefties"   -- @iowahawkblog
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86"1984 is coming to pass not because it's imposed, but because everyone is volunteering to do their part."   -- James Lileks
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88"Accuse your opponent of what only you are doing as you are doing it to create confusion."   -- apocryphally Saul Alinsky or V.I. Lenin
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90"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."   -- Granville Hicks
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92"A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs."   -- German Proverb
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94"Actually, rural America has access to the Internet, Netflix, Twitter, and Amazon. But does 'cosmopolitan' America have any understanding of tradition, religion, freedom, or optimism? [in response to an accusation that rural America is disconnected]"   -- Geoffrey Miller
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96"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist as a permanent form of government until the majority discovers it can vote  itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loss of fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."   -- Peterson, E. T.
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98"Adolf Hitler is the story of a failed liberal art student who blamed it on ethnicities he deemed privileged."   -- @CatlinNya
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100"A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, the they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."    -- apocryphally George Washington
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102"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."   -- William S. Burroughs
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104"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."   -- Mark Twain
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106"A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed."   -- Aristotle
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108"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings, and no nation has ever enjoyed it."    -- Dean William R. Inge
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110"A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous."   -- George Washington
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112"A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
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114"A great pleasure in life is doing what others say you can't."   -- anon
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116"A healthy person can accept criticism."   -- Adrian Rogers
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118"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment."   -- Willis Player
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120"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."   -- Mark Twain
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122"A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth."   -- Joseph Goebbels
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124"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
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126"All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community."   -- George Washington
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128"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."   -- George Orwell
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130"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."   -- I. F. Stone
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132"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one."   -- Malala Yousafzai
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134"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."   -- Adolf Hitler
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136"All science is either Physics or stamp collecting."    -- Lord Kelvin
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138"All socialism involves slavery."   -- Herbert Spencer
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140"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."    -- Edmund Burke
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142"Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency."   -- Thomas Sowell
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144"A man followed a young girl into a Target bathroom in Texas saying he self identified as a woman. The man's teeth were knocked out by the girl's father, who says he self identifies as the tooth fairy."   -- anon
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146"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."   -- Lysander Spooner
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148"A man's character is his fate."   -- Heraclitus
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150"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."   -- Charles Schwab
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152"A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity."   -- Joseph Goebbels
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154"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."   -- Oscar Wilde
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156"Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent."   -- Theodore Roosevelt
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158"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."   -- James Madison, The Federalist Papers
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160"America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes."   -- Ayn Rand
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162"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."   -- Mahatma Gandhi
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164"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. ... A murderer is less to be feared."   -- Cicero
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166"And Murti-Bing is more tempting to an intellectual than to a peasant or laborer. For the intellectual, the New Faith is a candle that he circles like a moth.  
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168In the end, he throws himself into the flame for the glory of mankind.  
169
170We must not treat this desire for self-immolation lightly."   -- Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind
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172"An educated public is the keystone of our arch of government."    -- Thomas Jefferson
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174"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."   -- T. S. Eliot
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176"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."   -- Thomas Jefferson
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178"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them."    -- Werner Heisenberg
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180"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."   -- Mark Twain
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182"An unexamined life is not worth living."   -- Socrates
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184"Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one."    -- Sam Rayburn
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186"Anyone smart enough to be President is smart enough not to be President."    -- anon
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188"Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign."   -- William J. Clinton
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190"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."   -- ARTHUR C. CLARKE, Profiles of the Future
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192"A person who isn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory doesn’t understand what has been said."   -- Neils Bohr
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194"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."   -- Sun Tzu
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196"A problem well stated is a problem half-solved."   -- Charles Kettering
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198"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."    -- George Washington
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200"Argument is the worst sort of conversation."   -- Jonathan Swift
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202"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."    -- Abraham Lincoln
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204"Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from."   -- Thomas Sowell
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206"A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom."   -- Milton Friedman
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208"As someone who has worked both in private industry and in academia, whenever I hear about academics wanting to teach ethics to people in business, I want to puke."   -- Thomas Sowell
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210"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."   -- Vladimir Lenin
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212"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."   -- Aristotle
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214"At one time, it was well understood that adversity taught valuable lessons, which reduce the probability of repeating foolish decisions. But, today, the welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to flourish."   -- Thomas Sowell
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216"A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened."   -- George Orwell
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218"A true friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are."   -- Anonymous
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220"At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all society, all groups, and states, exist for that person's benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society."   -- Robert Kennedy
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222"At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose."    -- Aristotle
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224"A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself."   -- Albert Einstein
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226"A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion."   -- Hugo Black
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228"A wise old man one told me when I was a kid 'remember, a free press can enslave you more quickly than a controlled press, because they are trusted'."   -- @surveryortom
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230"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."    -- Wernher von Braun
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232"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."    -- Aristotle
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234"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."   -- (apocryphally) Mark Twain
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236"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."   -- Sun Tzu
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238"Before we had the term, we used to deride 'virtue signalers' by noting they were people 'who knew the price of everything but the cost of nothing'. Now they have devolved to the point of knowing nothing at all while reinforcing it with strident bad manners."   -- anon qcf
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240"Begin by banning his poems not because you object to them but because you object to him, and you will end, as the Nazis did, by slaughtering his wife and children."   -- W.H. Auden [on no-platforming Ezra Pound]
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242"Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience."   -- Viktor E. Frankl
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244"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."   -- James Madison
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246"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."   -- (apocryphally) Mark Twain
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248"Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos."   -- John Marshall
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250"Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out."   -- George Carlin
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252"Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks."   -- Thomas Sowell
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254"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."   -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
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256"But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."   -- Mahatma Gandhi
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258"Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin."   -- Adolf Hitler
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260"Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge."   -- Albert Einstein
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262"Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life."    -- (apocryphal Benjamin Franklin)
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264"Character is determined by choice, not opinion."    -- Aristotle
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266"Character is power."   -- Booker T. Washington
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268"Character is the only secure foundation of the state."   -- Calvin Coolidge
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270"China is going to take over the USA, eventually. The average Federal official and the average citizen are, with respect, just far too stupid to collectively organize a decently coordinated & intelligent defense. The United States is doomed because people are just too dumb."    -- @langdaleca
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272"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt."   -- Mahatma Gandhi
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274"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."   -- Mao Zedong
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276"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."   -- John F. Kennedy
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278"'Confronting' everyone who politically disagrees with you, everywhere they go, seems like a call for civil war. Is that what @People4Bernie really want? Is that something they really think they could win? #shortsighted"   -- Geoffrey Miller
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280"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."   -- Thomas Jefferson
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282"Conservatives have historically seen people falling through the cracks in society and said, That's the way things work, survival of the fittest. Liberals see people falling through the cracks and say, We've got to do something about those people falling through the cracks, so we need a strong government that can provide programs and assist those people. Populists say there shouldn't be any cracks; let's fix them."   -- Jim Hightower
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284"Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds."   -- Milton Friedman
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286"Control healthcare and you control the people."   -- Saul Alinsky
287
288"Courage: Two cannibals having oral sex."   -- anon
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290"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."   -- Ambrose Redmoon
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292"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."   -- Arthur Koestler
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294"Darwinian adaptation to environment applies not only to nature but also to society. Just as you don't find eagles living in the ocean or fish living on mountain tops, so you don't find leftists concentrated where their ideas have to stand the test of performance."   -- Thomas Sowell
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296"Deception is a state of mind - and the mind of the state."   -- James Jesus Angleton
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298"Defectives demand our obedience to their obsessions."   -- anon
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300"Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal."   -- Adolf Hitler
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302"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."   -- Vladimir Lenin
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304"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."   -- H.L. Mencken
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306"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."    -- G.K. Chesterton
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308"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."   -- James Bovard
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310"Democrats consist of ghouls and their propagandized rape victims while most Republican politicians are the Democrat's blackmailed poodles. Everyone else is in denial hoping the ghouls eat them last."   -- anon
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312"Demoralize, Destabilize, Crisis, Normalization. 'The situation has been normalized, comrade.' Active measures."   -- Yuri Bezmenov
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314"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."   -- Adolf Hitler
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316"Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy."   -- Ludwig von Mises
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318"Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force."   -- George Orwell
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320"'Did what I want happen? No. Then my aim or my methods were wrong. I still have something to learn.' That is the voice of authenticity. 'Did what I want happen? No. Then the world is unfair. People are jealous, and too stupid to understand. It is the fault of something or someone else.' That is the voice of inauthenticity. It is not too far from there to 'they should be stopped' or 'they must be hurt' or 'they must be destroyed.'"   -- Jordan Peterson
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322"Do not consider Collectivists as 'sincere but deluded idealists'. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not 'idealistic,' no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives."   -- Ayn Rand
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324"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."   -- Socrates
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326"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."    -- Plato
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328"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."   -- Mark Twain
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330"Do people who advocate special programs for blacks realize that the government has had special programs for American Indians, including affirmative action, since the early 19th century - and that American Indians remain one of the few groups worse off than blacks?"   -- Thomas Sowell
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332"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."   -- Mark Twain
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334"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."    -- Theodore Roosevelt
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336"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late."   -- Thomas Sowell
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338"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."   -- Oscar Wilde
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340"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."   -- Malcolm S. Forbes
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342"Elections should be held on April 16th - the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders."   -- Thomas Sowell
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344"Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate."   -- Sun Tzu
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346"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."   -- George Orwell
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348"Entertainment now fills the space where reflection used to be."   -- Tucker Carlson
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350"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
351
352"Envy plus rhetoric equals 'social justice'."   -- Thomas Sowell
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354"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."   -- Will Rogers
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356"Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror."   -- George Washington
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358"Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an 'independent' agency operated by selfless public servants striving to 'fine-tune' the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a non-political governmental institution is as likely as a barking cat."   -- Thomas DiLorenzo
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360"Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us."   -- Frederick Douglass
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362"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."   -- Will Rogers
363
364"Everybody wants to change the world but nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
365
366"Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action."   -- Ayn Rand
367
368"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 demands 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
369
370"Everyone sees tactics, but only Generals see strategy."   -- Sun Tzu
371
372"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
373
374(1)  It's completely impossible.
375(2)  It's possible, but it's not worth doing.
376(3)  I said it was a good idea all along."    -- Arthur C. Clarke
377
378"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."    -- Plato
379
380"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."   -- Albert Einstein
381
382"Everything they hate about (Trump), from the nonstop concern with what the press is saying, to the willingness to override traditions to do what he wants, is a characteristic that our political class has had for decades. He just does it with insufficiently-creased pants...."   -- Glenn Reynolds
383
384"Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people."   -- John F. Kennedy
385
386"Evil always overplays its hand."   -- anon
387
388"Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments."   -- Confucius
389
390"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."   -- Thomas Jefferson
391
392"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."   -- (apocryphally?) Mark Twain
393
394"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all."   -- Richard Feynman
395
396"False words are not only evil in themselves but they infect the soul with evil."   -- Plato
397
398"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."   -- George Washington
399
400"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic."   -- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
401
402"Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives: Anything that can go wrong, will ... at the worst possible moment."   -- anon
403
404"Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us."   -- Aristotle
405
406"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."   -- Confucius
407
408"Firearms are second only to the constitution in importance. They are the people's liberty teeth."    -- (apocryphally George Washington)
409
410"For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
411
412"For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. 
413
414We love our friends not just because we like each other or are useful to each other, but because we share the same values and ideals for our society, and come together to advance those ideals."   -- Jules Evans, Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations
415
416"For the compassionate, sorrow is more easily displaced by another sorrow than by joy."   -- Nassim Taleb
417
418"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
419
420"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."   -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
421
422"Four legs good, two legs bad!"   -- George Orwell
423
424"Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament, character, and capacity - and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so."   -- Frank Chodorov
425
426"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."   -- Ronald Reagan
427
428"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."   -- Mortimer Adler
429
430"From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking."    -- Niccolo Machiavelli
431
432"Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace."   -- Milton Friedman
433
434"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."    -- Elbert Hubbard
435
436"Gentleman: Knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't."   -- anon
437
438"George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles."   -- Author Unknown
439
440"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."   -- Vladimir Lenin
441
442"Good moral character is the first essential in a man."   -- George Washington
443
444"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."    -- Plato
445
446"Google Motto 2004: 'Don't be evil.' 
447Google Motto 2010: 'Evil is tricky to define.'
448Google Motto 2014: 'We build military robots.'"   -- anon
449
450"Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law."   -- Clarence Thomas
451
452"Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help."   -- Mahatma Gandhi
453
454"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."   -- Ronald Reagan
455
456"Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence."   -- Jim Babka
457
458"Government is just the word for the armed robberies we all do together."   -- @NoLongerBennett
459
460"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."   -- Frederic Bastiat
461
462"Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free."   -- Harry Browne
463
464"Government should stay the hell out of people's business."   -- Barry Goldwater
465
466"Governments indoctrinate children, then bribe voters with debt."   -- Stephan Molyneux
467
468"Government's job is not to get you stuff, or to get somebody else's stuff for you. It's to preserve your liberty."   -- Rand Paul
469
470"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."   -- Ronald Reagan
471
472"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them."   -- Walter F. Mondale
473
474"Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound."   -- L. Neil Smith
475
476"Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."   -- anon
477
478"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."   -- Unknown
479
480"Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?"   -- Thomas Sowell
481
482"Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Ohm are driving down the highway when they’re pulled over. As the officer walks up to the car, Heisenberg rolls down the window. The officer asks him, "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"
483
484To which Heisenberg replies, "No, officer, but I can tell you exactly where I was."
485
486The officer is confused, and says, "Sir, you were going 90 in a 60 zone."
487
488Heisenberg angrily smacks the steering wheel and says, "Well, great! Now I’m lost!"
489
490The officer continues to question Heisenberg, and becomes increasingly doubtful of his sobriety. He begins searching the car for alcohol, and when he gets to the trunk, he leans around the side and yells, "Did you know you have a dead cat in your trunk!?"
491
492Annoyed, Schrödinger complains, "Well, I do now!"
493
494The officer, quite disconcerted, moves to arrest the occupants.
495
496Ohm resists."   -- Anon
497
498"Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life."   -- Thomas Sowell
499
500"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."    -- Thomas Paine
501
502"He who defends everywhere, defends nowhere."   -- Sun Tzu
503
504"He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists."   -- Ludwig von Mises
505
506"He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection."   -- Confucius
507
508"Hi, I'm Julian Assange. I give private information on corporations and government to you for free and the media calls me a criminal.
509
510Hi, I'm Mark Zuckerberg. I give your private information to corporations and government for money and the media called me Man of the Year."   -- anon
511
512"Historians of the future will have a hard time figuring out how so many organized groups of strident jackasses succeeded in leading us around by the nose and morally intimidating the majority into silence."   -- Thomas Sowell
513
514"Historians of the future will write books and hold symposia debating how an intellectual class could produce and consume this sort of fever-dream, yet also pride itself on superior rationality and respect for evidence.        Tweet Quote: The TV series 'The Man In The High Castle' imagines a world in which Nazis won World W II. But we don't need an alternative history show to imagine a Soviet victory in the Cold War. We have Trump. - @Milbank   "   -- @Vermuellarmine
515
516"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn."    -- Edmund Burke
517
518"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."   -- anon
519
520"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an Anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."   -- Ronald Reagan
521
522"I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate."   -- Adolf Hitler
523
524"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."   -- Winston Churchill
525
526"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."    -- Benjamin Franklin
527
528"I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics."   -- Ayn Rand
529
530"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."   -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
531
532"I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."                                  .    -- John F Kennedy
533
534"I can live for two months on a good compliment."   -- Mark Twain
535
536"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar."   -- Richard Feynman
537
538"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."   -- James Madison
539
540"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."    -- George Washington
541
542"I can't respect anyone who shouts & claims moral superiority over another. I won't waste my time trying to dissuade hateful, judgmental rhetoric. Engaging those who are emotionally erratic is a waste of time. All learning is state dependent; they're simply in no state to listen."   -- @imatriarch
543
544"I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism & demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians."   -- Thomas Jefferson
545
546"Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare."   -- Thomas Sowell
547
548"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend."   -- Abraham Lincoln
549
550"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty."   -- Imelda Marcos
551
552"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."   -- Mark Twain
553
554"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."   -- Voltaire
555
556"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."   -- Clarence Thomas
557
558"I don't believe people should be able to own guns."   -- President Barack Obama
559
560"I drink to make other people interesting."   -- Ralph Puke
561
562"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."   -- Thomas Jefferson
563
564"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.   -- Arthur C. Clarke
565
566"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution."   -- Abraham Lincoln
567
568"If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words."   -- anonymous
569
570"If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."    -- Isaac Newton
571
572"If it wasn't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them."   -- anon
573
574"If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior."   -- John Cleese
575
576"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."    -- George Washington
577
578"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
579
580"If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies."   -- Milton Friedman
581
582"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. *"   -- William J. Clinton
583
584"If the postmodernists are to be believed, you should not believe what they say."   -- John Ma
585
586"If there is a government shutdown, who will spy on me, waste my money and have contempt for me?"   -- anon
587
588"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."   -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
589
590"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."   -- James Madison 
591
592"If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it."   -- (apocryphally) Mark Twain
593
594"If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued propaganda abroad to undermine the loyalty of citizens in general, and teenagers in particular. By making drugs of various kinds readily available, by creating the necessary attitude of chaos, idleness and worthlessness, and by preparing him psychologically and politically, we can succeed."   -- Vladimir Lenin
595
596"If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."   -- Noam Chomsky
597
598"If we lowered the voting age to 1 MINUTE would Democrat leaders stop promoting infanticide?"   -- @GovMikeHuckabee
599
600"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."   -- Vince Lombardi
601
602"If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement."   -- Leon Trotsky
603
604"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."   -- Elbert Hubbard
605
606"If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it."   -- Lewis Goldberg
607
608"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today."   -- Thomas Sowell
609
610"If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace"   -- Voltaire
611
612"If you hold a permanent view of yourself as a victim you become your own oppressor."   -- Candace Owens
613
614"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."   -- Sun Tzu
615
616"If you make a play for the king, you better kill the king."   -- anon
617
618"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."    -- Benjamin Franklin
619
620"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."   -- Milton Friedman
621
622"If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does ... then someone will buy them - and it won't be you; you can't afford them."   -- Juan Cole
623
624"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself."   -- Joseph Goebbels
625
626"If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment."   -- Ernest Rutherford
627
628"If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him."   -- Sun Tzu
629
630"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."    -- Mark Twain
631
632"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
633
634"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."   -- George Orwell
635
636"If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist."   -- Joseph Sobran
637
638"If you want to know who actually has the power in our society and who is actually marginalized, ask which ideas get you sponsorships from Google and Pepsi and which get you fired."   -- Kevin Williamson
639
640"I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged."   -- Roger Jones
641
642"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."    -- Martin Luther King
643
644"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."   -- Winston Churchill
645
646"I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war."   -- Thomas Jefferson
647
648"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
649
650"I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."    -- Mark Twain
651
652"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."    -- Thomas Jefferson
653
654"I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand."   -- Confucius, 551-479 BC
655
656"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."   -- George Washington
657
658"I just read the word 'pedophobes' and well, I think we are done here, society."   -- @BridgetPhetasy
659
660"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others."   -- Socrates
661
662"Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch."   -- Harry Browne
663
664"Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty."   -- Socrates
665
666"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."   -- George Orwell
667
668"In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces."   -- Mikhail Bakunin
669
670"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. 
671Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. 
672Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. 
673Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. 
674Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up."    -- Pastor Martin Niemöller
675
676"In government, the scum rises to the top."   -- Friedrich August von Hayek
677
678"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. 
679
680When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. 
681
682To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. 
683
684A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. 
685
686I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."   -- Theodore Dalrymple [v2]
687
688"In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty."   -- Leo Tolstoy
689
690"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."   -- Friedrich Nietzsche
691
692"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality."    -- Karl Popper
693
694"In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all: security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."   -- Edward Gibbon
695
696"In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."   -- Lawrence Summers
697
698"In the midst of chaos there is opportunity."   -- Sun Tzu
699
700"I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them."   -- Adlai Stevenson
701
702"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."   -- Jane Wagner
703
704"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."   -- Thomas Jefferson
705
706"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety."   -- Frederick Douglass
707
708"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."   -- Booker T. Washington
709
710"Isn't it weird how many non-whites want to live in the white world, surrounded by whites, rather than in their own native cultures? Why the f*ck do you think they do that?"   -- Mydogrules
711
712"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."   -- Mark Twain
713
714"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."   -- Thomas Jefferson
715
716"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."    -- Richard Feynman
717
718"It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former."   -- George Washington
719
720"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."    -- Winston Churchill
721
722"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."   -- Oscar Wilde
723
724"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."   -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Ludlow
725
726"I think that there's a discussion taking place in this country between two camps ... gun owners and the completely ill informed."   -- Steven Crowder
727
728"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."   -- John F. Kennedy
729
730"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."   -- Voltaire
731
732"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."   -- Voltaire
733
734"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
735
736"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."   -- Thomas Jefferson
737
738"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."   -- Thomas Sowell
739
740"It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit."    -- Aristotle
741
742"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."   -- Thomas Jefferson
743
744"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."                                                     .   -- Henrik Ibsen
745
746"It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy."   -- John Adams
747
748"It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
749
750"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men."   -- George MacDonald
751
752"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."    -- Aristotle
753
754"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."   -- Carl Sagan
755
756"It is through such post-modern constructs that interoperable narratives are established among various left-wing groups as well as between them and Islamist groups at all levels. For example, from the 2001 Conference of Foreign Ministers at Bamako, Mali, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) declared its commitment to fight racism and xenophobia and then declared Islamophobia a 'contemporary form of racism'."    -- Rich Higgins (from POTUS and Political Warfare)
757
758"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."   -- Dean William R. Inge
759
760"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."   -- Oscar Wilde
761
762"It's always the ones with the dirty hands pointing the fingers."   -- anon
763
764"It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him."   -- Edwin Feulner
765
766"It's illegal to say to a voter 'Here's $100, vote for me.' So what do the politicians do? They offer the $100 in the form of Health Care, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Food Stamps, tobacco subsidies, grain payments, NEA payments, and jobs programs."   -- Don Farrar
767
768"It's not cool to be smart."   -- anon
769
770"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."   --  Vince Lombardi
771
772"It's the big fact of American life now, isn't it?  That we are patronized by our inferiors."   -- Peggy Noonan
773
774"It takes a great deal of knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."    -- Thomas Sowell
775
776"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be tomorrow."   -- Alexander Hamilton
777
778"It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise."   -- Joseph Goebbels
779
780"I've never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. 
781
782But I've seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked."    -- Scott Adams
783
784"I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature."   -- Sidney Hook
785
786"Kakleptocracy: Rule by the worst thieves among us."   -- anon
787
788"Laughter doesn't stem from nonsense. Laughter stems from discovery, the sudden realization of a truth or a lie: the things we take for granted getting explored in unexpected ways, the assumptions we make getting questioned and re-contextualized. Humor is sanity, not insanity."   -- @WilliamBibbiani
789
790"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."   -- Mark Twain
791
792"Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves."   -- Thomas Jefferson
793
794"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."   -- Thomas Jefferson's 'Commonplace Book'
795
796"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."   -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
797
798"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."   -- Leon Trotsky
799
800"Lefty rules:        
801Their violence is speech; your speech is violence.        
802Their threats are criticism; your criticism is a threat."   -- John Hayward @Doc_0
803
804"Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state."   -- Adolf Hitler
805
806"Let the questions be the curriculum."   -- Socrates
807
808"Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their ranks."   -- Michelle Malkin
809
810"Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others."   -- William Allen White
811
812"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."   -- Learned Hand
813
814"Little minds think and talk about people.  
815Average minds think and talk about things and actions.  
816Great minds think and talk about ideas."    -- (apocryphal Benjamin Franklin)
817
818"Logic is the anatomy of thought."   -- John Locke
819
820"Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State."   -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
821
822"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."   -- Ludwig von Mises
823
824"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny."   -- Aristotle
825
826"Master your mind or someone else will control it."   -- @Surreptitious
827
828"Maturity is not a matter of age. You have matured when you are no longer concerned with showing how clever you are, and give your full attention to getting the job done right. Many never reach that stage, no matter how old they get."   -- Thomas Sowell
829
830"Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless."    -- Niccolo Machiavelli
831
832"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves."   -- D. H. Lawrence
833
834"Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn't know because they might reflect badly on Democrats."   -- @jtLOL
835
836"Modern liberalism is a sense deadening, nihilistic mind virus spreading condescendingly poisonous postmodern pieties."   -- anon
837
838"More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words."   -- Thomas Sowell
839
840"More law, less justice."   -- Cicero
841
842"Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72."   -- Mark Twain
843
844"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."   -- Oscar Wilde
845
846"Most people will do almost anything you ask them to and almost nothing that you tell them to."   -- Stefan Molyneux
847
848"Muhammad was once a refugee taken in by the Jewish city of Medina. Within five years, he had driven out, executed, or enslaved every Jew living in Medina."   -- unattributed
849
850"Music is what happens when a smart, group-living, anthropoid ape stumbles into the evolutionary wonderland of runaway sexual selection for complex acoustic displays."   -- Geoffrey Miller
851
852"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."    -- Adlai Stevenson
853
854"My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans - to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream. Because Americans are dreamers too."   -- Donald Trump
855
856"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right."   -- Ashleigh Brilliant
857
858"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."   -- Mark Twain
859
860"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
861
862"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."    -- Plato
863
864"Never let a crisis go to waste."   -- Saul Alinsky
865
866"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."    -- Albert Einstein
867
868"No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."   -- George Washington
869
870"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
871
872"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."   -- Thomas Jefferson
873
874"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."   -- Frederick Douglass
875
876"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent."    -- Abraham Lincoln
877
878"No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life."    -- Thomas E. Dewey
879
880"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."    -- Jacob Bronowski
881
882"Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose."   -- Joseph Goebbels
883
884"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."   -- Thomas Jefferson
885
886"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."   -- Thomas Jefferson
887
888"Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered."   -- Socrates
889
890"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."   -- Oscar Wilde
891
892"Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc."   -- George Orwell
893
894"Once Nietzsche declared 'God is dead,' the entire history of 'Progressivism' became an exercise in replacing Him with various and often interconnected cult-like pseudo-religions. As the late Tom Wolfe wrote in his epochal 1976 article, 'The 'Me' Decade and the Third Great Awakening,' 'It is entirely possible that in the long run historians will regard the entire New Left experience as not so much a political as a religious episode wrapped in semi military gear and guerrilla talk.'"   -- Ed Driscoll
895
896"Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments."   -- Ludwig von Mises
897
898"One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them."    -- Rosamond Lehmann
899
900"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching."   -- Unknown
901
902"One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."   -- (apocryphal?) Joseph Stalin
903
904"One did commerce in German, made love in French, spoke to the servants in English, and related stories of disaster in Russian."   -- apocryphally Trevanian via Thomas Wictor
905
906"One man with a gun can control 100 without one."   -- Vladimir Lenin
907
908"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."    -- George Washington
909
910"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."   -- Thomas Reed
911
912"One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
913
914"One of the major contributions of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, The Gulag Archipelago, was his analysis of the direct causal relationship between the pathology of the Soviet prison-work-camp dependent state (where millions suffered and died) and the almost universal proclivity of the Soviet citizen to falsify his own day-to-day personal experience, deny his own state-induced suffering, and thereby prop up the dictates of the rational, ideology-possessed communist system."   -- Jordan Peterson (12 Rules for Life)
915
916"One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with 'hate speech' laws."   -- Thomas Sowell
917
918"One of the most pathetic - and dangerous - signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason."   -- Thomas Sowell
919
920"One useless man is a shame; two is a law firm; three or more is a Congress."    -- John Adams
921
922"On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."   -- Thomas Jefferson
923
924"One way to reduce illegal immigration might be to translate some of our far left publications into Spanish and give everyone in Mexico subscriptions. After they read how terrible this country is, many may want to stay away."   -- Thomas Sowell
925
926"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
927
928"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."   -- Aristotle
929
930"Only small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by the public's incredulity."   -- Marshall McLuhan
931
932"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."    -- Robert F. Kennedy
933
934"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."   -- Albert Einstein
935
936"O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law: The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum."   -- anon
937
938"Our children are not born to hate, they are raised to hate."   -- Thomas della Peruta
939
940"Our societies are intellectual shanty towns. Our beliefs about the world and each other have been created by the same system that has lied us into repeated wars that have killed millions."   -- @JulianAssange
941
942"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."   -- Thurgood Marshall
943
944"Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence."   -- Thomas Sowell
945
946"Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history."    -- Will and Arial Durant
947
948"Outrage culture is simply the calamitization of the mundane. It is a process by which group solidarity can be lazily achieved by combatting non-existent crises."   -- Harinam and Henderson
949
950"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."   -- Groucho Marx
951
952"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."    -- George Washington
953
954"Over the years, liberal judges have twisted the First Amendment's phrase about 'free exercise of religion' to mean the opposite-that you are not free to exercise your religion if atheists or members of non-Christian religions say that they are offended."   -- Thomas Sowell
955
956"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'."   -- George Orwell
957
958"Panoramic postmodern propaganda purposefully proliferates pliant proles."   -- anon
959
960"Panoramic postmodern propaganda proliferates poisonous people."   -- anon
961
962"Panoramic propaganda proliferates proles."   -- anon
963
964"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people."    -- Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
965
966"Parkinson’s First Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
9671. Officials want to multiply subordinates, not rivals.
9682. Officials make work for one another."   -- C.N. Parkinson
969
970"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."   -- Mark Twain
971
972"People who think that they don't owe anything to anybody should read David McCullough's outstanding new book '1776,' to see what hell other people went through to create the freedom that we enjoy and abuse today."   -- Thomas Sowell
973
974"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."   -- Soren Kierkegaard
975
976"People fear witches, and burn women."   -- Louis D. Brandeis
977
978"People keep saying you shouldn't be penalized for old opinions. You shouldn't be penalized for your opinions now! You have a perfect right to disapprove of homosexuality or heterosexuality or anything else. Censorship won't create a world of tolerance, just a world of lies."   -- Andrew Klavan
979
980"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."   -- George Orwell
981
982"People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work."   -- L. Neil Smith
983
984"People who think they know everything greatly annoy those of us who do."   -- anon
985
986"People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
987
988"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)"   -- Saul Alinsky
989
990"Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better to suffer tortures on the rack than to have a soul burdened with the guilt of doing evil." 
991
992Aristotle does not confront this position directly: he merely emphasizes that it is better still both to be free from having done evil and to be free from being tortured on the rack."   -- Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History Of Ethics: 
993A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age 
994To The Twentieth Century
995
996"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."    -- Aristotle
997
998"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."   -- Charlton Heston
999
1000"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."   -- Mao Zedong
1001
1002"Political warfare is one of the five components of a Maoist insurgency. Maoist methodologies employ synchronized violent and non-violent actions that focus on mobilization of individuals and groups to action. This approach envisions the direct use of non-violent operational arts and tactics as elements of combat power. In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing state power."    -- Rich Higgins
1003
1004"Political warfare is warfare. Strategic information campaigns designed to delegitimize through disinformation arise out of non-violent lines of effort in political warfare regimes. They principally operate through narratives."    -- Rich Higgins
1005
1006"Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
1007
1008"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money."   -- Joseph Sobran
1009
1010"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."   -- John Kenneth Galbraith
1011
1012"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."   -- Ronald Reagan
1013
1014"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."   -- Groucho Marx
1015
1016"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."   -- Paul Valery
1017
1018"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other."   -- Oscar Ameringer
1019
1020"Politics is the systematic organization of hatreds."   -- Henry Adams
1021
1022"Postmodern media have purposefully created a society of subconsciously traumatized cognitive rape victims."   -- anon
1023
1024"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."   -- Lord Acton
1025
1026"Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
1027
1028"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed."    -- Mark Twain
1029
1030"Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis."   -- Llewellyn Rockwell
1031
1032"Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1033
1034"Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent."   -- Adolf Hitler
1035
1036"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1037
1038"Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve."   -- John Pugsley
1039
1040"Q: What's the difference between a 'Democratic Socialist' and a 'Socialist'? 
1041A: Nothing. 
1042Q: What's the difference between a 'Socialist' and a 'Communist'? 
1043A: Socialists aren't honest about being Communists."   -- @thealexvanness
1044
1045"Question: What has been your biggest disappointment?    
1046Answer: Learning that even intelligent people can be cowards and that courage is a much rarer attribute than intelligence."   -- Julian Assange
1047
1048"Quickness is the essence of the war."   -- Sun Tzu
1049
1050"Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups."   -- Thomas Sowell
1051
1052"Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society."    -- George Washington
1053
1054"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."    -- Richard Feynman
1055
1056"Reparations: the extraction of money from those who were never slave owners to be given to those who were never slaves."   -- @larryelder
1057
1058"Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats."   -- Harry Browne
1059
1060"Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty."    -- Montesquieu
1061
1062"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."   -- Aristotle
1063
1064"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."   -- William O. Douglas
1065
1066"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."    -- Plato
1067
1068"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."   -- Saul Alinsky
1069
1070"Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans."   -- Thomas Sowell
1071
1072"Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
1073
1074"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."    -- Richard Feynman
1075
1076"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."   -- Karl Popper
1077
1078"See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs."   -- Dave Barry
1079
1080"Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it."    -- Vauvenargues
1081
1082"Seven Dangers to Human Virtue:   
10831. Wealth without work   
10842. Pleasure without conscience    
10853. Knowledge without character  
10864. Business without ethics    
10875. Science without humanity    
10886. Religion without sacrifice    
10897. Politics without principle"   -- anon
1090
1091"Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior."   -- Dee Hock
1092
1093"Since America is such a oppressive, racist, and bigoted country, shouldn’t we be warning immigrants not to come here?"   -- Charlie Kirk
1094
1095"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage."   -- C. S. Lewis
1096
1097"Since outright slavery has been discredited, 'democracy' is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept."   -- Joseph Sobran
1098
1099"Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been."   -- Walter Gretzky
1100
1101"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."   -- Mark Twain
1102
1103"So basically, a crowd of people crying in multi-colored propeller beanie hats are controlling what we see on the internet."   -- @ARmastrangelo
1104
1105"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain."   -- Frederic Bastiat
1106
1107"Socialism has been described as a method of loving humanity so that you can be indifferent to your actual neighbor."   -- Richard Fernandez
1108
1109"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."   -- Thomas Sowell
1110
1111"Socialism is much more about hating the rich than helping the poor."   -- Charlie Kirk
1112
1113"Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution."   -- Ben Shapiro
1114
1115"Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society."   -- Herbert Spencer
1116
1117"Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."   -- Anonymous Greek Proverb
1118
1119"Society's needs come before the individuals needs"   -- Adolf Hitler
1120
1121"Someone once said that a fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him. The implications of that undermine most of the agenda of the political left."   -- Thomas Sowell
1122
1123"Some people dream of great accomplishments while others stay awake and do them."    -- anon
1124
1125"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels, in the form of kings, to govern him? Let history answer this question."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1126
1127"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it."   -- (apocryphally Mark Twain)
1128
1129"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."   -- Friedrich Nietzsche
1130
1131"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."    -- Mark Twain
1132
1133"Some words, on the other hand, displayed a frank and contemptuous understanding of the real nature of Oceanic society. An example was 'prolefeed', meaning the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses."    -- George Orwell
1134
1135"So much of left wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."    -- George Orwell
1136
1137"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."   -- Saint Francis of Assisi
1138
1139"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but hollow point expands on contact."   -- anon
1140
1141"Stripped of most meaningful religious, geographic, cultural, family or labor-related bonds, Americans will identify most with what historically mattered least: their political affiliations. The stage is set for the same politics-as-holy-war that followed the Reformation."   -- Antonio Garcia Martinez
1142
1143"Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized."   -- Llewellyn Rockwell
1144
1145"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."   -- Mark Twain
1146
1147"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."   -- Winston Churchill
1148
1149"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."   -- Mark Twain
1150
1151"Teachers open the door... You enter by yourself."   -- Chinese proverb
1152
1153"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand."   -- Archibald Putt
1154
1155"Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers."     -- Aristotle
1156
1157"Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand."   -- Chinese proverb
1158
1159"Term limits aren't enough. We need jail."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
1160
1161"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1162
1163"The common and continual mischief's [sic] of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion."    -- George Washington
1164
1165"The agenda of the left is to take the decision out of the hands of those directly involved and transfer that decision to third parties, who pay no price for making decisions that turn out to be counterproductive."   -- Thomas Sowell
1166
1167"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism."    -- George Washington
1168
1169"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."   -- (apocryphally?) Norman Thomas
1170
1171"The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money."    -- Alexis de Tocqueville
1172
1173"The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined."   -- Dick Armey
1174
1175"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name."   -- Confucius
1176
1177"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."   -- Winston Churchill
1178
1179"The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said."   -- Nassim Taleb
1180
1181"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."   -- Vladimir Lenin
1182
1183"The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1184
1185"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."   -- Adolf Hitler
1186
1187"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. 
1188
1189He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague."    -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, EWD340
1190
1191"The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."   -- John Marshall
1192
1193"The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government."   -- Joseph Sobran
1194
1195"The constitutions of most of our states assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, both fact and law, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person; freedom of religion; freedom of property; and freedom of the press."   -- Thomas Jefferson (to John Cartwright, 1824)
1196
1197"The Constitution was written to protect us against people who don't think we need a Constitution to protect us against people like them."   -- Dan Bongino
1198
1199"The Democrats are playing you for a political CHUMP and if you vote for them, not only are you a CHUMP, you are a traitor to your race!"   -- Malcolm X
1200
1201"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."   -- William Shakespeare
1202
1203"The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence."   -- Leon Trotsky
1204
1205"The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community."   -- David Boaz
1206
1207"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."    -- Gandhi
1208
1209"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."   -- Leon Trotsky
1210
1211"The ends justify the means." [* Do they?]   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
1212
1213"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot."   -- Dean William R. Inge
1214
1215"The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force."   -- Milton Friedman
1216
1217"The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists."   -- unknown
1218
1219"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."   -- Thomas Sowell
1220
1221"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
1222
1223"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."   -- Mark Twain
1224
1225"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."    -- Richard Feynman
1226
1227"The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own."   -- Aristotle
1228
1229"The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it."   -- Harry Browne
1230
1231"The general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend, and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."   -- Sun Tzu
1232
1233"The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side."   -- Theodore J. Forstmann
1234
1235"The goal of socialism is communism."   -- Vladimir Lenin
1236
1237"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice."   -- Harry Browne
1238
1239"The grand fallacy of the political left is that evil is localized in some set of 'oppressors' from whom we can be 'liberated.' That is also its great attraction, for it allows people to attribute their dissatisfactions to other people."   -- Thomas Sowell
1240
1241"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."   -- George Santayana
1242
1243"The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event."   -- Adolf Hitler
1244
1245"The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want."   -- Aristotle
1246
1247"The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning."    -- Aristotle
1248
1249"The great ideological divide is between those who believe that theories should be adjusted to reality and those who believe that reality must be adjusted to fit their theories."   -- Thomas Sowell
1250
1251"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."   -- Adolf Hitler
1252
1253"The great tragedy of science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."    -- Thomas Huxley
1254
1255"The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another."   -- Milton Friedman
1256
1257"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."   -- Wayne Dyer
1258
1259"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."   -- Aristotle
1260
1261"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."   -- Mark Twain
1262
1263"The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all."   -- H. L. Mencken
1264
1265"The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer."    -- Henry Kissenger
1266
1267"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."   -- Friedrich Nietzsche
1268
1269"The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called 'society,' or the 'nation,' which is only a collection of individuals."   -- Emma Goldman
1270
1271"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."   -- (apocryphally?) Thomas Jefferson
1272
1273"The left is so invested in the idea that they are helping the disadvantaged that they seldom bother to check the actual consequences of what they are doing."   -- Thomas Sowell
1274
1275"The lesson many Republicans have taken away from their treatment by the media and prominent Democrats over the past two decades is that they - conservatives, gun owners, Tea Party supporters, evangelical Christians - are always going to be portrayed as the bad guys. Always."   -- Michael Graham
1276
1277"The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living."   -- Socrates
1278
1279"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of hearts, there remains an uprooted small corner of evil."   -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1280
1281"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood."   -- Adolf Hitler
1282
1283"The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty."   -- Ludwig von Mises
1284
1285"The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave."   -- Alexis de Tocqueville
1286
1287"The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances."   -- Aristotle
1288
1289"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1290
1291"The measure of a man is what he does with power."   -- Plato
1292
1293"The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1294
1295"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1296
1297"The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state."   -- Anthony Gregory
1298
1299"The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results."   -- Saul Alinsky
1300
1301"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms."   -- Adolf Hitler
1302
1303"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."   -- William Temple
1304
1305"The most powerful form of lie is the omission."    -- (apocryphally?) Orwell
1306
1307"The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace."   -- H. L. Mencken
1308
1309"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."   -- Thomas Sowell
1310
1311"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."   -- John Stuart Mill
1312
1313"The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree."   -- Saul Alinsky
1314
1315"The party out of power now claims the other to be illegitimate - but Washington pointed out all parties are illegitimate."   -- anon (qcf)
1316
1317"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."   -- (inexact) Joseph Stalin
1318
1319"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."   -- Abraham Lincoln
1320
1321"The plans differ; the planners are all alike."   -- Frederic Bastiat
1322
1323"The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away."    -- John S. Caldwell
1324
1325"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1326
1327"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."   -- Vladimir Lenin
1328
1329"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."    -- Plato
1330
1331"The prideful, rational mind, comfortable with its certainty, enamoured of its own brilliance, is easily tempted to ignore error, and to sweep dirt under the rug. Literary, existentialist philosophers, beginning with Soren Kierkegaard, conceived of this mode of Being as 'inauthentic.' An inauthentic person continues to perceive and act in ways his own experience has demonstrated false. He does not speak with his own voice."   -- Jordan Peterson
1332
1333"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."   -- Henry Cate, VII
1334
1335"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."   -- Margaret Thatcher
1336
1337"The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property."   -- Ludwig von Mises
1338
1339"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."   -- Oscar Wilde
1340
1341"The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles."   -- Socrates
1342
1343"There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough US congressmen."   -- Author Unknown
1344
1345"There are many kinds of people in the world. Are you one of them?"   -- anon
1346
1347"There are no rights if you can't defend them."   -- NRA
1348
1349"There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs."    -- Thomas Sowell
1350
1351"There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."   -- @tech_faq
1352
1353"There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation."   -- Frederic Bastiat
1354
1355"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."   -- George Orwell
1356
1357"There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies and statistics."   -- Benjamin Disraeli
1358
1359"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."   -- George Bernard Shaw
1360
1361"The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity."   -- Adolf Hitler
1362
1363"There can be no freedom without freedom to fail."   -- Eric Hoffer
1364
1365"There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust."   -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
1366
1367"There has now been created a world in which the success of others is a grievance, rather than an example."   -- Thomas Sowell
1368
1369"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as De Tocqueville describes it, 'a new form of servitude'."   -- Friedrich Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order
1370
1371"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1372
1373"There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true, and, in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged."   -- George Washington
1374
1375"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."   -- Mark Twain
1376
1377"There is no learning without remembering."   -- Socrates
1378
1379"There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have."   -- Harry S. Truman
1380
1381"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."   -- Mark Twain
1382
1383"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."   -- Antonin Scalia
1384
1385"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
1386
1387"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
1388
1389"There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes."   -- Karl Marx
1390
1391"There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
1392
1393"THERE IS TROUBLE IN THE FOREST, AND THE CREATURES ALL HAVE FLED, AS THE MAPLES SCREAM 'OPPRESSION!' AND THE OAKS JUST SHAKE THEIR HEADS"   -- Rush, 'The Trees'
1394
1395"There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions."   -- Milton Friedman
1396
1397"The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone."   -- Louis D. Brandeis
1398
1399"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."   -- Mark Twain
1400
1401"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."    -- Claude Levi-Strauss
1402
1403"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."                                                            .   -- Mike Russell
1404
1405"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."   -- Carl Jung
1406
1407"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."   -- Ayn Rand
1408
1409"The social media companies have already lost control of the AI running the algorithms, that's why none of the tech CEOs can give clear answers to media or Congress. (replying to 'AI that brainwashes humans, that's the danger.' from Wisdomination)"   -- Mike Cernovich
1410
1411"The strange phenomenon of our times - one which will probably astound our descendants - is the doctrine based on this triple hypothesis: the total inertness of mankind, the omnipotence of the law, and the infallibility of the legislator."   -- Frederic Bastiat [on socialism]
1412
1413"The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified."   -- Friedrich Nietzsche
1414
1415"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science."   -- Carl Sagan
1416
1417"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."   -- Sun Tzu
1418
1419"The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not."   -- Friedrich August von Hayek
1420
1421"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1422
1423"The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society."   -- Mark Skousen
1424
1425"The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching."   -- John Wooden
1426
1427"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."   -- Winston Churchill
1428
1429"The truth is the greatest enemy of the State."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1430
1431"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you figure out why."   -- Mark Twain
1432
1433"The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief."    -- Aristotle
1434
1435"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."   -- Herbert Spencer
1436
1437"The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity."   -- George Washington
1438
1439"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."   -- apocryphally George Washington
1440
1441"The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence."   -- Adolf Hitler
1442
1443"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections."   -- Robert H. Jackson
1444
1445"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."   -- John F. Kennedy
1446
1447"The way of the masters was to find their own way."   -- Zen proverb
1448
1449"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."   -- Vladimir Lenin
1450
1451"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."   -- Albert Camus
1452
1453"The welfare state is the greatest confidence racket of all time. The government takes your money in taxes and then turns around and spends some of it to give you things. For this, you feel dependent on them, when in fact they are dependent on you."   -- Thomas Sowell
1454
1455"The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take the people's money quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly."   -- Thomas Sowell
1456
1457"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."   -- H. L. Mencken
1458
1459"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."   -- Gustave Flaubert
1460
1461"The will of the people is as shifty as the sands of the seashore. The truth is that men are tired of liberty."   -- Benito Mussolini
1462
1463"The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them."   -- Albert Einstein
1464
1465"The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all."    -- Tacitus
1466
1467"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."   -- Ludwig von Mises
1468
1469"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."   -- Aristotle
1470
1471"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."    -- Henry Ward Beecher
1472
1473"The years of peak mental activity are undoubtedly between the ages of four and eighteen.  At four we know all the questions, at eighteen all the answers."    -- unknown
1474
1475"They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet."   -- Saul Alinsky
1476
1477"They laughed when I said I'd be a comedian. They aren't laughing now."   -- anon
1478
1479"Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do."   -- Aristotle
1480
1481"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1482
1483"This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1484
1485"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."   -- Santayana
1486
1487"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it."   -- Abraham Lincoln
1488
1489"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than those who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."   -- Aristotle
1490
1491"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."    -- Thomas Paine
1492
1493"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell."    -- Karl Popper
1494
1495"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
1496
1497"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."    -- Benjamin Franklin
1498
1499"Through discipline comes freedom."   -- Aristotle
1500
1501"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."   -- Sun Tzu
1502
1503"'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."   -- George Washington
1504
1505"To assent to obvious lies is ... in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."    -- Theodore Dalrymple
1506
1507"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."    -- George Washington
1508
1509"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."   -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1510
1511"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1512
1513"To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master."   -- David Nasaw
1514
1515"To him who is in fear, everything rustles."   -- Sophocles
1516
1517"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt."   -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1518
1519"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1520
1521"To regard the majority of Western peoples as possessing malign motives; to approach all books, art & human interactions with suspicion is not a sign of clear-eyed perception, but rather, as one of my psychology professors once put it, a diseased mind."   -- Stephen Harrod Buhner
1522
1523"Tribalism isn't just about us-vs.-them, it's also about deferring to fame and status, investing in personalities rather than principles. As institutions lose their hold on us, we put our faith in celebrities."   -- Jonah Goldberg
1524
1525"True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within."   -- Saul Alinsky
1526
1527"Trump's success is largely a result of him saying what millions of Normals observe but what the elite demands they not say."   -- Kurt Schlichter
1528
1529"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."   -- Mark Twain
1530
1531"TURN. OFF. THE. T.V."   -- anon
1532
1533"TV is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done."   -- anon
1534
1535"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."    -- Charles Peguy
1536
1537"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true."   -- Will Rogers
1538
1539"Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom."   -- Thomas Sowell
1540
1541"Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money."   -- Thomas Hobbes
1542
1543"Venality, not pride, is the gravest human sin, for ultimately it destroys everything else of value."   -- Jason Jordan
1544
1545"Victor Frankl, the psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor who wrote the classic Man's Search for Meaning, drew a similar social-psychological conclusion: deceitful, inauthentic individual existence is the precursor to social totalitarianism."   -- Jordan Peterson
1546
1547"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."   -- Sun Tzu
1548
1549"Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. 
1550
1551Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time."   -- Aristotle
1552
1553"VOIPP = Victim of Intense Postmodern Propaganda"   -- anon
1554
1555"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."   -- George Orwell
1556
1557"War is the health of the state."   -- Randolph Bourne
1558
1559"War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself."    -- (apocryphal Benjamin Franklin)
1560
1561"Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1562
1563"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking."   -- Mark Twain
1564
1565"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."   -- Oscar Wilde
1566
1567"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."   -- Richard Feynman
1568
1569"We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it."   -- George Washington
1570
1571"We are not punished for our sins, but by them."   -- Elbert Hubbard
1572
1573"We are now approaching the state of Orwell's dictum, that 'he who controls the present, controls the past.' He who controls internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind.And by controlling that controls our perceptions of who we are. And by controlling that controls what laws and regulations we make in society."   -- Julian Assange
1574
1575"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions."   -- (apocryphally?) Adolf Hitler
1576
1577"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."    -- Aristotle
1578
1579"We are working to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, for only in that way can we find progress."    -- Richard Feynman
1580
1581"We cannot recapture the past, but sometimes it can recapture us - if we are not careful."   -- Thomas Sowell
1582
1583"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."   -- William J. Clinton
1584
1585"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."   -- Winston Churchill
1586
1587"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."   -- William Hazlitt
1588
1589"We have the best government that money can buy."   -- Mark Twain
1590
1591"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1592
1593"We live in the most non-patriarchal moment in all of American history, if not all of Western history, if not all of human history. And yet so profound is the need to fight this terrible foe that, across the landscape, Donna Quixotes are constantly tilting their lances at mirages of their own imaginations."   -- Jonah Goldberg
1594
1595"Well, our friend Dirac has got a religion and its guiding principle is 'There is no God and Paul Dirac is His prophet.'"   -- Wolfgang Pauli
1596
1597"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."   -- William Casey, CIA Director
1598
1599"We need either less corruption or more chance to participate in it."   -- anon
1600
1601"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1602
1603"We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice."   -- Woody Allen
1604
1605"We totally deny the allegations, and we are trying to identify the allegators."   -- anon
1606
1607"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."   -- Thomas Jefferson to James Madison
1608
1609"What did socialists use before candles? .. Electricity."   -- anon [on socialism]
1610
1611"What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1612
1613"What do we know now that we didn't know before?"    -- ACG
1614
1615"What good fortune for those in power that people do not think."   -- Adolf Hitler
1616
1617"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation of this - go and study it!"   -- Hillel
1618
1619"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage."    -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
1620
1621"What is most frightening about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. All problems seem to them to be due to other people not being as wise or as noble as they are."   -- Thomas Sowell
1622
1623"What is the difference between leftists and cannibals? Cannibals don't eat their friends."   -- attributed to Lyndon Johnson
1624
1625"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin."   -- Mark Twain
1626
1627"What men value in this world is not rights but privileges."   -- H. L. Mencken
1628
1629"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."   -- Confucius
1630
1631"What would I replace the Fed with? When someone removes a cancer, what do you replace it with?"   -- Thomas Sowell
1632
1633"'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation."    -- John Buchan
1634
1635"When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1636
1637"When a man says he wants to kill you... you should believe him."    -- Anonymous Holocaust Survivor
1638
1639"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."   -- Mark Twain
1640
1641"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."   -- Donald James
1642
1643"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."    -- P.J O'Rourke
1644
1645"Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions."   -- Milton Friedman
1646
1647"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."    -- Mark Twain
1648
1649"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles."   -- Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
1650
1651"When men found the mirror they began to lose their souls."   -- unknown
1652
1653"When people have to resort to words like 'greed' or 'exploitation,' it is hopeless to try to have a rational discussion with them."   -- Thomas Sowell
1654
1655"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."   -- Frederic Bastiat
1656
1657"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers."   -- Socrates
1658
1659"When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny."   -- Thomas Paine
1660
1661"When the press goes on about decency, it's really about narrative control."   -- Glenn Reynolds
1662
1663"When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end."   -- Aristotle
1664
1665"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1666
1667"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty."   -- Confucius
1668
1669"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."   -- Harry S. Truman
1670
1671"When you've seen one non-sequitur, the price of tea in China."   -- anon
1672
1673"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
1674
1675"Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation."   -- Leon Trotsky
1676
1677"Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people."    -- Heinrich Heine
1678
1679"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."    -- Benjamin Franklin
1680
1681"Why invade a country when you can just buy its institutions, turn its women against its men, make transvestites of its children, sell the wealth generated by its labor to foreign investors, then introduce a foreign army as 'refugees' and 'diversity' to finish it off?   -- anon
1682
1683"Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?"   -- Adolf Hitler
1684
1685"Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you."   -- Author Unknown
1686
1687"Williamson's First Law: 'Everything is simple if you don't know a f*****g thing about it.'"   -- Kevin Williamson
1688
1689"Without Islamic slavers, there would have been no black slave trade in the Western Hemisphere."   -- Bill Warner
1690
1691"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."   -- Mark Twain
1692
1693"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."   -- Socrates
1694
1695"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing - that's what counts."   -- Richard Feynman
1696
1697"You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest."   -- Ambrose Bierce
1698
1699"You cannot help small men by tearing down big men."   -- Abraham Lincoln
1700
1701"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."   -- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, 1941
1702
1703"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."   -- Adrian Rogers
1704
1705"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself."   -- Galileo
1706
1707"You can replace lies with truth, but myth is only displaced with a narrative."     -- Nassim Taleb
1708
1709"You can't badger people to change but you can seduce them with your sense of joy..."   -- Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris
1710
1711"You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about Communism."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
1712
1713"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook."   -- Harry S. Truman [rephrase]
1714
1715"You can't learn to think for yourself if you don't take the time to do it."   -- anon
1716
1717"You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society."   -- Vaclav Havel
1718
1719"You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him."   -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
1720
1721"You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
1722
1723"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."   -- (apocryphally) Trotsky
1724
1725"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."   -- Sam Levenson
1726
1727"You never win an argument until they attack your person."    -- Nassim Taleb
1728
1729"Your best teacher is your last mistake."   -- anon
1730
1731"Your children will live under Communism... You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept Communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you finally wake-up and find that you already have Communism.  We won't have to fight you, we'll so weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands."   -- Nikita Khrushschev
1732
1733"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."    -- Aristotle
1734
1735"You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve YOUR freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it. "   -- John Adams
1736
1737"You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more."   -- Adolf Hitler
1738
1739~ Everything you say is a lie, including the words 'and' and 'the'. ~   -- a paraphrase of Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman
1740
1741“Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.”    -- Aristotle
1742
1743'An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.'    -- Robert A. Heinlein
1744
1745'A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims ... but accomplices.'    -- George Orwell
1746
1747'As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.'    -- Albert Einstein
1748
1749'As good as you are, and as bad as I am, I'm as good as you are as bad as I am.'    -- Scottish toast
1750
1751'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.'    -- George Orwell
1752
1753'Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.'    -- Max Planck
1754
1755'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'    -- George Orwell
1756
1757'Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.'    -- Henry Thomas Buckle
1758
1759'If you thought science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.'    -- Richard Feynman
1760
1761'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.'    -- George Orwell
1762
1763'Sometimes I stop to think and forget to start again.'    -- anon
1764
1765'The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.'    -- E.O. Wilson
1766
1767'The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it.'    -- H.L. Mencken
1768
1769'We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.'    -- George Orwell
1770
1771What do you call 1000 lawyers on the bottom of the sea?   A good start.    -- anon
1772
1773'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.'    -- George Orwell
1774
1775'Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.'    -- Albert Einstein
1776
1777'You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.'    -- William J. H. Boetcker