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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"[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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7"[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 (disappeared from the internet)
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9"[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."   -- Patrick Henry
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11"1. Identify a respected institution.    
122. kill it.    
133. gut it.    
144. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.    
15#lefties"   -- @iowahawkblog
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17"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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19"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."   -- Granville Hicks
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21"A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs."   -- German Proverb
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23"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 (@primalpoly)
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25"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., 9 December, 1951, 'The Hard Core of Freedom,' The Daily Oklahoman, quoting Alexander Fraser, Tyler
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27"Adolf Hitler is the story of a failed liberal art student who blamed it on ethnicities he deemed privileged."   -- @CatlinNya (Michelle Catlin)
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29"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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31"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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33"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."   -- Mark Twain
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35"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings, and no nation has ever enjoyed it."    -- Dean William R. Inge
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37"A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
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39"A great pleasure in life is doing what others say you can't."   -- anon
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41"A healthy person can accept criticism."   -- Adrian Rogers
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43"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment."   -- Willis Player
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45"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."   -- Mark Twain
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47"A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth."   -- Joseph Goebbels
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49"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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51"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."   -- George Orwell
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53"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."   -- I. F. Stone
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55"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one."   -- Malala Yousafzai
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57"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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59"All science is either Physics or stamp collecting."    -- Lord Kelvin
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61"All socialism involves slavery."   -- Herbert Spencer
62
63"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."    -- Edmund Burke
64
65"Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency."   -- Thomas Sowell
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67"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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69"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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71"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."   -- Charles Schwab
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73"A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity."   -- Joseph Goebbels
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75"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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77"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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79"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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81"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.  
82
83In the end, he throws himself into the flame for the glory of mankind.  
84
85We must not treat this desire for self-immolation lightly."   -- Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind
86
87"An educated public is the keystone of our arch of government."    -- Thomas Jefferson
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89"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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91"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."   -- Thomas Jefferson
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93"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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95"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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97"An unexamined life is not worth living."   -- Socrates
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99"Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one."    -- Sam Rayburn
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101"Anyone smart enough to be President is smart enough not to be President."    -- anon
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103"Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign."   -- William J. Clinton
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105"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."   -- ARTHUR C. CLARKE, Profiles of the Future
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107"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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109"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."   -- Sun Tzu
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111"A problem well stated is a problem half-solved."   -- Charles Kettering
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113"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."    -- George Washington
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115"Argument is the worst sort of conversation."   -- Jonathan Swift
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117"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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119"Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from."   -- Thomas Sowell
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121"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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123"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
124
125"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 (from POTUS and Political Warfare)
126
127"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."   -- Aristotle
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129"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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131"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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133"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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135"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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137"At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose."    -- Aristotle
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139"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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141"A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion."   -- Hugo Black
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143"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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145"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."    -- Wernher von Braun
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147"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."    -- Aristotle
148
149"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."   -- (apocryphally) Mark Twain
150
151"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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153"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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155"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 (Federalist 46)
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157"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."   -- (apocryphally) Mark Twain
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159"Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos."   -- John Marshall
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161"Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out."   -- George Carlin
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163"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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165"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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167"But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."   -- Mahatma Gandhi
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169"Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin."   -- Adolf Hitler
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171"Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge."   -- Albert Einstein
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173"Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life."    -- (apocryphal Benjamin Franklin)
174
175"Character is determined by choice, not opinion."    -- Aristotle
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177"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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179"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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181"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt."   -- Mahatma Gandhi
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183"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."   -- Mao Zedong
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185"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."   -- John F. Kennedy
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187"'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 (@primalpoly)
188
189"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."   -- Thomas Jefferson
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191"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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193"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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195"Control healthcare and you control the people."   -- Saul Alinsky
196
197"Courage: Two cannibals having oral sex."   -- anon
198
199"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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201"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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203"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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205"Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal."   -- Adolf Hitler
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207"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."   -- Vladimir Lenin
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209"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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211"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."    -- G.K. Chesterton
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213"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."   -- James Bovard
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215"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."   -- Adolf Hitler
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217"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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219"Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force."   -- George Orwell
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221"'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 (12 Rules for Life)
222
223"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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225"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."   -- Socrates
226
227"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
228
229"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."   -- Mark Twain
230
231"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
232
233"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."   -- Mark Twain
234
235"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."    -- Theodore Roosevelt
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237"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
238
239"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."   -- Malcolm S. Forbes
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241"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
242
243"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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245"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."   -- George Orwell
246
247"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
248
249"Envy plus rhetoric equals 'social justice'."   -- Thomas Sowell
250
251"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."   -- Will Rogers
252
253"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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255"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."   -- Will Rogers
256
257"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
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259"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
260
261"Everyone sees tactics, but only Generals see strategy."   -- Sun Tzu
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263"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
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265(1)  It's completely impossible.
266(2)  It's possible, but it's not worth doing.
267(3)  I said it was a good idea all along."    -- Arthur C. Clarke
268
269"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."    -- Plato
270
271"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."   -- Albert Einstein
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273"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
274
275"Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments."   -- Confucius
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277"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 (Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge)
278
279"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."   -- (apocryphally?) Mark Twain
280
281"False words are not only evil in themselves but they infect the soul with evil."   -- Plato
282
283"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic."   -- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
284
285"Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives: Anything that can go wrong, will ... at the worst possible moment."   -- anon
286
287"Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us."   -- Aristotle
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289"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."   -- Confucius
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291"Firearms are second only to the constitution in importance. They are the people's liberty teeth."    -- (apocryphally George Washington)
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293"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
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295"For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. 
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297We 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
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299"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
300
301"For the compassionate, sorrow is more easily displaced by another sorrow than by joy."   -- Nassim Taleb
302
303"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
304
305"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."   -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
306
307"Four legs good, two legs bad!"   -- George Orwell
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309"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
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311"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."   -- Ronald Reagan
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313"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."   -- Mortimer Adler
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315"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
316
317"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
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319"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."    -- Elbert Hubbard
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321"Gentleman: Knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't."   -- anon
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323"George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles."   -- Author Unknown
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325"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."    -- Plato
326
327"Google Motto 2004: 'Don't be evil.' 
328Google Motto 2010: 'Evil is tricky to define.'
329Google Motto 2014: 'We build military robots.'"   -- anon
330
331"Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law."   -- Clarence Thomas
332
333"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
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335"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."   -- Ronald Reagan
336
337"Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence."   -- Jim Babka
338
339"Government is just the word for the armed robberies we all do together."   -- @NoLongerBennett
340
341"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."   -- Frederic Bastiat
342
343"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
344
345"Government should stay the hell out of people's business."   -- Barry Goldwater
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347"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
348
349"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
350
351"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them."   -- Walter F. Mondale
352
353"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
354
355"Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."   -- anon
356
357"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."   -- Unknown
358
359"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
360
361"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?"
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363To which Heisenberg replies, "No, officer, but I can tell you exactly where I was."
364
365The officer is confused, and says, "Sir, you were going 90 in a 60 zone."
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367Heisenberg angrily smacks the steering wheel and says, "Well, great! Now I’m lost!"
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369The 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!?"
370
371Annoyed, Schrödinger complains, "Well, I do now!"
372
373The officer, quite disconcerted, moves to arrest the occupants.
374
375Ohm resists."   -- Anon
376
377"Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life."   -- Thomas Sowell
378
379"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."    -- Thomas Paine
380
381"He who defends everywhere, defends nowhere."   -- Sun Tzu
382
383"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
384
385"He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection."   -- Confucius
386
387"Hi, I'm Julian Assange. I give private information on corporations and government to you for free and the media calls me a criminal.
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389Hi, 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
390
391"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
392
393"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn."    -- Edmund Burke
394
395"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."   -- anon
396
397"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
398
399"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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401"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
402
403"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."   -- Winston Churchill
404
405"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 (On the price of corn, and the management of the poor)
406
407"I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics."   -- Ayn Rand
408
409"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
410
411"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
412
413"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
414
415"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
416
417"I can live for two months on a good compliment."   -- Mark Twain
418
419"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
420
421"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
422
423"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
424
425"Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare."   -- Thomas Sowell
426
427"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend."   -- Abraham Lincoln
428
429"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty."   -- Imelda Marcos
430
431"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."   -- Mark Twain
432
433"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."   -- Voltaire
434
435"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."   -- Clarence Thomas
436
437"I don't believe people should be able to own guns."   -- President Barack Obama (in conversation with John Lott at UC)
438
439"I drink to make other people interesting."   -- Ralph Puke
440
441"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 (1816, in a letter to C. Yancey)
442
443"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
444
445"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
446
447"If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words."   -- anonymous
448
449"If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."    -- Isaac Newton
450
451"If it wasn't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them."   -- anon
452
453"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."    -- George Washington
454
455"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
456
457"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
458
459"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
460
461"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.
462
463"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."   -- James Madison 
464
465"If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it."   -- (apocryphally) Mark Twain
466
467"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
468
469"If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."   -- Noam Chomsky
470
471"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."   -- Vince Lombardi
472
473"If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement."   -- Leon Trotsky
474
475"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."   -- Elbert Hubbard
476
477"If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it."   -- Lewis Goldberg
478
479"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
480
481"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
482
483"If you hold a permanent view of yourself as a victim you become your own oppressor."   -- Candace Owens
484
485"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."   -- Sun Tzu
486
487"If you make a play for the king, you better kill the king."   -- anon
488
489"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."    -- Benjamin Franklin (to Jane Mecom)
490
491"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."   -- Milton Friedman
492
493"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
494
495"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself."   -- Joseph Goebbels
496
497"If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment."   -- Ernest Rutherford
498
499"If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him."   -- Sun Tzu
500
501"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."    -- Mark Twain
502
503"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
504
505"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."   -- George Orwell
506
507"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
508
509"I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged."   -- Roger Jones
510
511"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
512
513"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."   -- Winston Churchill
514
515"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
516
517"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
518
519"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
520
521"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."    -- Thomas Jefferson
522
523"I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand."   -- Confucius, 551-479 BC
524
525"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others."   -- Socrates
526
527"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
528
529"Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty."   -- Socrates
530
531"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."   -- George Orwell
532
533"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
534
535"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. 
536Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. 
537Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. 
538Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. 
539Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up."    -- Pastor Martin Niemöller
540
541"In government, the scum rises to the top."   -- Friedrich August von Hayek
542
543"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. 
544
545When 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. 
546
547To 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. 
548
549A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. 
550
551I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."   -- Theodore Dalrymple
552
553"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
554
555"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."   -- Friedrich Nietzsche
556
557"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
558
559"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
560
561"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'"   -- Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Grand Inquisitor)
562
563"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 (Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses)
564
565"In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."   -- Lawrence Summers
566
567"In the midst of chaos there is opportunity."   -- Sun Tzu
568
569"I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them."   -- Adlai Stevenson
570
571"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."   -- Jane Wagner
572
573"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
574
575"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety."   -- Frederick Douglass
576
577"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."   -- Booker T. Washington
578
579"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
580
581"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
582
583"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."   -- Thomas Jefferson
584
585"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
586
587"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
588
589"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 (6 September 1824)
590
591"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
592
593"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."   -- Voltaire
594
595"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."   -- Voltaire
596
597"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
598
599"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."   -- Thomas Jefferson
600
601"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
602
603"It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit."    -- Aristotle
604
605"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
606
607"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."                                                     .   -- Henrik Ibsen
608
609"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
610
611"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
612
613"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."    -- Aristotle
614
615"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."   -- Carl Sagan
616
617"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)
618
619"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
620
621"It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him."   -- Edwin Feulner
622
623"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. 
624
625The 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. 
626
627Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
628
629"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
630
631"It's not cool to be smart."   -- anon
632
633"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."   --  Vince Lombardi
634
635"It takes a great deal of knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."    -- Thomas Sowell
636
637"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
638
639"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
640
641"I've never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. 
642
643But I've seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked."    -- Scott Adams
644
645"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
646
647"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
648
649"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."   -- Mark Twain
650
651"Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves."   -- Thomas Jefferson
652
653"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."   -- (apocryphally Thomas Jefferson)
654
655"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."   -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
656
657"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."   -- Leon Trotsky
658
659"Lefty rules:        
660Their violence is speech; your speech is violence.        
661Their threats are criticism; your criticism is a threat."   -- John Hayward @Doc_0
662
663"Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state."   -- Adolf Hitler
664
665"Let the questions be the curriculum."   -- Socrates
666
667"Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their ranks."   -- Michelle Malkin
668
669"Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others."   -- William Allen White
670
671"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
672
673"Little minds think and talk about people.  
674Average minds think and talk about things and actions.  
675Great minds think and talk about ideas."    -- (apocryphal Benjamin Franklin)
676
677"Logic is the anatomy of thought."   -- John Locke
678
679"Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State."   -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
680
681"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
682
683"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny."   -- Aristotle
684
685"Master your mind or someone else will control it."   -- @Surreptitious
686
687"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
688
689"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
690
691"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
692
693"Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn't know because they might reflect badly on Democrats."   -- @jtLOL
694
695"More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words."   -- Thomas Sowell
696
697"More law, less justice."   -- Cicero
698
699"Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72."   -- Mark Twain
700
701"Most people will do almost anything you ask them to and almost nothing that you tell them to."   -- Stefan Molyneux
702
703"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
704
705"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
706
707"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 (@primalpoly)
708
709"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."    -- Adlai Stevenson
710
711"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right."   -- Ashleigh Brilliant
712
713"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."   -- Mark Twain
714
715"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
716
717"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."    -- Plato
718
719"Never let a crisis go to waste."   -- Saul Alinsky
720
721"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."    -- Albert Einstein
722
723"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
724
725"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."   -- Thomas Jefferson (Proposal to Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334,[C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950])
726
727"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent."    -- Abraham Lincoln
728
729"No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life."    -- Thomas E. Dewey
730
731"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."    -- Jacob Bronowski
732
733"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
734
735"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."   -- Thomas Jefferson
736
737"Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered."   -- Socrates
738
739"Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc."   -- George Orwell (The Principles of Newspeak)
740
741"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
742
743"One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them."    -- Rosamond Lehmann
744
745"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching."   -- Unknown
746
747"One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."   -- (apocryphal?) Joseph Stalin
748
749"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
750
751"One man with a gun can control 100 without one."   -- Vladimir Lenin
752
753"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."    -- George Washington (Farewell Address)
754
755"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
756
757"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
758
759"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)
760
761"One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with 'hate speech' laws."   -- Thomas Sowell
762
763"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
764
765"One useless man is a shame; two is a law firm; three or more is a Congress."    -- John Adams
766
767"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
768
769"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
770
771"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
772
773"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."   -- Aristotle
774
775"Only small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by the public's incredulity."   -- Marshall McLuhan
776
777"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."    -- Robert F. Kennedy
778
779"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."   -- Albert Einstein
780
781"O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law: The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum."   -- anon
782
783"Our children are not born to hate, they are raised to hate."   -- Thomas della Peruta
784
785"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
786
787"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."   -- Thurgood Marshall
788
789"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
790
791"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
792
793"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
794
795"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
796
797"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
798
799"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
800
801"Parkinson’s First Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
8021. Officials want to multiply subordinates, not rivals.
8032. Officials make work for one another."   -- C.N. Parkinson
804
805"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."   -- Mark Twain
806
807"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."   -- Soren Kierkegaard
808
809"People fear witches, and burn women."   -- Louis D. Brandeis
810
811"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."   -- George Orwell
812
813"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
814
815"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
816
817"People who think they know everything greatly annoy those of us who do."   -- anon
818
819"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
820
821"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." 
822
823Aristotle 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: 
824A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age 
825To The Twentieth Century
826
827"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."    -- Aristotle
828
829"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."   -- Charlton Heston
830
831"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."   -- Mao Zedong
832
833"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 (from POTUS and Political Warfare)
834
835"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 (from POTUS and Political Warfare)
836
837"Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."   -- P. J. O'Rourke
838
839"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money."   -- Joseph Sobran
840
841"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."   -- John Kenneth Galbraith
842
843"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
844
845"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."   -- Groucho Marx
846
847"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."   -- Paul Valery
848
849"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
850
851"Politics is the systematic organization of hatreds."   -- Henry Adams
852
853"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."   -- Lord Acton
854
855"Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
856
857"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed."    -- Mark Twain
858
859"Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis."   -- Llewellyn Rockwell
860
861"Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred."   -- Joseph Goebbels
862
863"Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent."   -- Adolf Hitler
864
865"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will."   -- Joseph Goebbels
866
867"Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve."   -- John Pugsley
868
869"Q: What's the difference between a 'Democratic Socialist' and a 'Socialist'? 
870A: Nothing. 
871Q: What's the difference between a 'Socialist' and a 'Communist'? 
872A: Socialists aren't honest about being Communists."   -- @thealexvanness
873
874"Question: What has been your biggest disappointment?    
875Answer: Learning that even intelligent people can be cowards and that courage is a much rarer attribute than intelligence."   -- Julian Assange
876
877"Quickness is the essence of the war."   -- Sun Tzu
878
879"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
880
881"Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society."    -- George Washington
882
883"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."    -- Richard Feynman
884
885"Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats."   -- Harry Browne
886
887"Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty."    -- Montesquieu
888
889"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."   -- Aristotle
890
891"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
892
893"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."    -- Plato
894
895"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
896
897"Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans."   -- Thomas Sowell
898
899"Robert Conquest's Three Laws of Politics:
9001. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
9012. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
9023. 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
903
904"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
905
906"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."    -- Richard Feynman
907
908"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."   -- Karl Popper
909
910"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
911
912"Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it."    -- Vauvenargues
913
914"Seven Dangers to Human Virtue:    
9151. Wealth without work    
9162. Pleasure without conscience    
9173. Knowledge without character    
9184. Business without ethics    
9195. Science without humanity    
9206. Religion without sacrifice    
9217. Politics without principle"   -- anon
922
923"Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior."   -- Dee Hock
924
925"Since America is such a oppressive, racist, and bigoted country, shouldn’t we be warning immigrants not to come here?"   -- Charlie Kirk
926
927"Since outright slavery has been discredited, 'democracy' is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept."   -- Joseph Sobran
928
929"Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been."   -- Walter Gretzky
930
931"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."   -- Mark Twain
932
933"So basically, a crowd of people crying in multi-colored propeller beanie hats are controlling what we see on the internet."   -- @ARmastrangelo
934
935"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
936
937"Socialism has been described as a method of loving humanity so that you can be indifferent to your actual neighbor."   -- Richard Fernandez (original source unknown)
938
939"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."   -- Thomas Sowell
940
941"Socialism is much more about hating the rich than helping the poor."   -- Charlie Kirk
942
943"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
944
945"Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society."   -- Herbert Spencer
946
947"Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."   -- Anonymous Greek Proverb
948
949"Society's needs come before the individuals needs"   -- Adolf Hitler
950
951"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
952
953"Some people dream of great accomplishments while others stay awake and do them."    -- anon
954
955"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 (First Inaugural Address)
956
957"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)
958
959"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."   -- Friedrich Nietzsche
960
961"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."    -- Mark Twain
962
963"Some words, on the other hand, displayed a frank and contemptuous understanding of the real nature of Oceanic society. 
964
965An example was 'prolefeed', meaning the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses."    -- George Orwell (The Principles of Newspeak)
966
967"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 (Inside the Whale and Other Essays)
968
969"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."   -- Saint Francis of Assisi
970
971"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but hollow point expands on contact."   -- anon
972
973"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 (@antoniogm)
974
975"Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized."   -- Llewellyn Rockwell
976
977"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
978
979"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."   -- Winston Churchill
980
981"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."   -- Mark Twain
982
983"Teachers open the door... You enter by yourself."   -- Chinese proverb
984
985"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 (Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat)
986
987"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
988
989"Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand."   -- Chinese proverb
990
991"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."   -- Thomas Jefferson
992
993"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
994
995"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 (Farewell Address)
996
997"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."   -- Norman Thomas
998
999"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? adaptation from Khrushschev?) Norman Thomas
1000
1001"The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money."    -- Alexis de Tocqueville
1002
1003"The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined."   -- Dick Armey
1004
1005"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name."   -- Confucius
1006
1007"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."   -- Winston Churchill
1008
1009"The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said."   -- Nassim Taleb
1010
1011"The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1012
1013"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."   -- Adolf Hitler
1014
1015"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 (Farewell Address)
1016
1017"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. 
1018
1019He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague."    -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, EWD340
1020
1021"The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."   -- John Marshall
1022
1023"The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government."   -- Joseph Sobran
1024
1025"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)
1026
1027"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 (killed two days later)
1028
1029"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."   -- William Shakespeare
1030
1031"The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence."   -- Leon Trotsky
1032
1033"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
1034
1035"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."    -- Gandhi
1036
1037"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."   -- Leon Trotsky
1038
1039"The ends justify the means." [* Do they?]   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
1040
1041"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot."   -- Dean William R. Inge
1042
1043"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
1044
1045"The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force."   -- Milton Friedman
1046
1047"The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists."   -- unknown
1048
1049"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
1050
1051"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."   -- Niccolo Machiavelli
1052
1053"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."   -- Mark Twain
1054
1055"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."    -- Richard Feynman
1056
1057"The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own."   -- Aristotle
1058
1059"The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it."   -- Harry Browne
1060
1061"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
1062
1063"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
1064
1065"The goal of socialism is communism."   -- Vladimir Lenin
1066
1067"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice."   -- Harry Browne
1068
1069"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
1070
1071"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."   -- George Santayana
1072
1073"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
1074
1075"The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want."   -- Aristotle
1076
1077"The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning."    -- Aristotle
1078
1079"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
1080
1081"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."   -- Adolf Hitler
1082
1083"The great tragedy of science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."    -- Thomas Huxley
1084
1085"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
1086
1087"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."   -- Wayne Dyer
1088
1089"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."   -- Aristotle
1090
1091"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."   -- Mark Twain
1092
1093"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
1094
1095"The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer."    -- Henry Kissenger
1096
1097"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
1098
1099"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
1100
1101"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
1102
1103"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
1104
1105"The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living."   -- Socrates
1106
1107"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
1108
1109"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
1110
1111"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
1112
1113"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
1114
1115"The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave."   -- Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America)
1116
1117"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
1118
1119"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1120
1121"The measure of a man is what he does with power."   -- Plato
1122
1123"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
1124
1125"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
1126
1127"The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state."   -- Anthony Gregory
1128
1129"The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results."   -- Saul Alinsky
1130
1131"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms."   -- Adolf Hitler
1132
1133"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. 
1134
1135To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. 
1136
1137Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."    -- Aristotle
1138
1139"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."   -- William Temple
1140
1141"The most powerful form of lie is the omission."    -- (apocryphally?) Orwell
1142
1143"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
1144
1145"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."   -- Thomas Sowell
1146
1147"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
1148
1149"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
1150
1151"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."   -- (inexact) Joseph Stalin
1152
1153"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."   -- Abraham Lincoln
1154
1155"The plans differ; the planners are all alike."   -- Frederic Bastiat
1156
1157"The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away."    -- John S. Caldwell
1158
1159"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1160
1161"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."    -- Plato
1162
1163"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 (12 Rules for Life)
1164
1165"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."   -- Henry Cate, VII
1166
1167"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."   -- Margaret Thatcher
1168
1169"The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property."   -- Ludwig von Mises
1170
1171"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
1172
1173"There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough US congressmen."   -- Author Unknown
1174
1175"There are many kinds of people in the world. Are you one of them?"   -- anon
1176
1177"There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs."    -- Thomas Sowell
1178
1179"There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."   -- @tech_faq
1180
1181"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
1182
1183"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."   -- George Orwell
1184
1185"There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies and statistics."   -- Benjamin Disraeli (apocryphally Mark Twain)
1186
1187"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
1188
1189"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
1190
1191"There can be no freedom without freedom to fail."   -- Eric Hoffer
1192
1193"There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust."   -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
1194
1195"There has now been created a world in which the success of others is a grievance, rather than an example."   -- Thomas Sowell
1196
1197"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 (1948)
1198
1199"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1200
1201"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."   -- Mark Twain
1202
1203"There is no learning without remembering."   -- Socrates
1204
1205"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
1206
1207"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."   -- Mark Twain
1208
1209"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
1210
1211"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
1212
1213"There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes."   -- Karl Marx
1214
1215"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
1216
1217"There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions."   -- Milton Friedman
1218
1219"The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone."   -- Louis D. Brandeis
1220
1221"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."   -- Mark Twain
1222
1223"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."    -- Claude Levi-Strauss
1224
1225"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."                                                            .   -- Mike Russell
1226
1227"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."   -- Carl Jung
1228
1229"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."   -- Ayn Rand
1230
1231"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
1232
1233"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 (in Cosmos)
1234
1235"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."   -- Sun Tzu
1236
1237"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
1238
1239"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1240
1241"The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society."   -- Mark Skousen
1242
1243"The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching."   -- John Wooden
1244
1245"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."   -- Winston Churchill
1246
1247"The truth is the greatest enemy of the State."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1248
1249"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you figure out why."   -- Mark Twain
1250
1251"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, 
1252
1253keeping 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 
1254
1255spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, 
1256
1257is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief."    -- Aristotle
1258
1259"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."   -- Herbert Spencer
1260
1261"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
1262
1263"The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence."   -- Adolf Hitler
1264
1265"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
1266
1267"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
1268
1269"The way of the masters was to find their own way."   -- Zen proverb
1270
1271"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."   -- Albert Camus
1272
1273"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
1274
1275"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
1276
1277"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
1278
1279"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."   -- Gustave Flaubert
1280
1281"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
1282
1283"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
1284
1285"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
1286
1287"The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all."    -- Tacitus
1288
1289"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."   -- Ludwig von Mises
1290
1291"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."   -- Aristotle
1292
1293"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."    -- Henry Ward Beecher
1294
1295"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
1296
1297"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
1298
1299"They laughed when I said I'd be a comedian. They aren't laughing now."   -- anon
1300
1301"Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do."   -- Aristotle
1302
1303"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."   -- Joseph Goebbels
1304
1305"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
1306
1307"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."   -- Santayana
1308
1309"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
1310
1311"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
1312
1313"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."    -- Thomas Paine
1314
1315"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell."    -- Karl Popper
1316
1317"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
1318
1319"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."    -- Benjamin Franklin (reply to the Governor)
1320
1321"Through discipline comes freedom."   -- Aristotle
1322
1323"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. 
1324
1325Advances 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. 
1326
1327Whenever 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.
1328
1329This is known as "bad luck."   -- Robert A. Heinlein
1330
1331"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."   -- Sun Tzu
1332
1333"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
1334
1335"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."    -- George Washington
1336
1337"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."   -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1338
1339"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
1340
1341"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
1342
1343"To him who is in fear, everything rustles."   -- Sophocles
1344
1345"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt."   -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1346
1347"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
1348
1349"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
1350
1351"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
1352
1353"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 (Farewell Address)
1354
1355"True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within."   -- Saul Alinsky
1356
1357"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."   -- Mark Twain
1358
1359"TV is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done."   -- anon
1360
1361"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."    -- Charles Peguy
1362
1363"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true."   -- Will Rogers
1364
1365"Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom."   -- Thomas Sowell
1366
1367"Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money."   -- Thomas Hobbes
1368
1369"Venality, not pride, is the gravest human sin, for ultimately it destroys everything else of value."   -- Jason Jordan
1370
1371"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 (12 Rules for Life)
1372
1373"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."   -- Sun Tzu
1374
1375"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. 
1376
1377Thus, 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
1378
1379"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."   -- George Orwell
1380
1381"War is the health of the state."   -- Randolph Bourne
1382
1383"War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself."    -- (apocryphal Benjamin Franklin)
1384
1385"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 (Notes on the State of Virginia)
1386
1387"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."   -- Oscar Wilde
1388
1389"We are not punished for our sins, but by them."   -- Elbert Hubbard
1390
1391"We are now approaching the state of Orwell's dictum, that 'he who controls the present, controls the past.'        
1392He who controls internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind.        
1393And by controlling that controls our perceptions of who we are.        
1394And by controlling that controls what laws and regulations we make in society."   -- Julian Assange (10 May 2010)
1395
1396"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
1397
1398"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."    -- Aristotle
1399
1400"We are working to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, for only in that way can we find progress."    -- Richard Feynman
1401
1402"We cannot recapture the past, but sometimes it can recapture us - if we are not careful."   -- Thomas Sowell
1403
1404"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."   -- William J. Clinton
1405
1406"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
1407
1408"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."   -- William Hazlitt
1409
1410"We have the best government that money can buy."   -- Mark Twain
1411
1412"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
1413
1414"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1415
1416"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
1417
1418"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."   -- William Casey, CIA Director
1419
1420"We need either less corruption or more chance to participate in it."   -- anon
1421
1422"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1423
1424"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
1425
1426"We totally deny the allegations, and we are trying to identify the allegators."   -- anon
1427
1428"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 (Dec. 20, 1787, in Papers of Jefferson, ed. Boyd et al.)
1429
1430"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
1431
1432"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
1433
1434"What do we know now that we didn't know before?"    -- ACG
1435
1436"What good fortune for those in power that people do not think."   -- Adolf Hitler
1437
1438"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
1439
1440"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
1441
1442"What is the difference between leftists and cannibals? Cannibals don't eat their friends."   -- attributed to Lyndon Johnson
1443
1444"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin."   -- Mark Twain
1445
1446"What men value in this world is not rights but privileges."   -- H. L. Mencken
1447
1448"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."   -- Confucius
1449
1450"What would I replace the Fed with? When someone removes a cancer, what do you replace it with?"   -- Thomas Sowell
1451
1452"'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation."    -- John Buchan
1453
1454"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 (to C. Hammond)
1455
1456"When a man says he wants to kill you... you should believe him."    -- Anonymous Holocaust Survivor
1457
1458"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
1459
1460"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."    -- P.J O'Rourke
1461
1462"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
1463
1464"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."    -- Mark Twain
1465
1466"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
1467
1468"When men found the mirror they began to lose their souls."   -- unknown
1469
1470"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
1471
1472"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
1473
1474"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 (from Milosz's 'The Captive Mind')
1475
1476"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers."   -- Socrates
1477
1478"When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny."   -- Thomas Paine
1479
1480"When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end."   -- Aristotle
1481
1482"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."   -- Thomas Jefferson
1483
1484"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty."   -- Confucius
1485
1486"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."   -- Harry S. Truman
1487
1488"When you've seen one non-sequitur, the price of tea in China."   -- anon
1489
1490"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
1491
1492"Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation."   -- Leon Trotsky
1493
1494"Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people."    -- Heinrich Heine
1495
1496"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."    -- Benjamin Franklin (Silence Dogood, No. 8)
1497
1498"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
1499
1500"Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?"   -- Adolf Hitler
1501
1502"Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you."   -- Author Unknown
1503
1504"Without Islamic slavers, there would have been no black slave trade in the Western Hemisphere."   -- Bill Warner
1505
1506"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."   -- Mark Twain
1507
1508"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."   -- Socrates
1509
1510"You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest."   -- Ambrose Bierce
1511
1512"You cannot help small men by tearing down big men."   -- Abraham Lincoln
1513
1514"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
1515
1516"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself."   -- Galileo
1517
1518"You can replace lies with truth, but myth is only displaced with a narrative."     -- Nassim Taleb
1519
1520"You can't badger people to change but you can seduce them with your sense of joy..."   -- Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris
1521
1522"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook."   -- Harry S. Truman (paraphrase from the original: An honest public servant can't become rich in politics.)
1523
1524"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
1525
1526"You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him."   -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
1527
1528"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. 
1529
1530And 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
1531
1532"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."   -- (apocryphally) Trotsky
1533
1534"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."   -- Sam Levenson
1535
1536"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
1537
1538"You never win an argument until they attack your person."    -- Nassim Taleb
1539
1540"Your best teacher is your last mistake."   -- anon
1541
1542"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, Premier of the Soviet Union, 1958 to 1964 in a recorded conversation with Ezra Taft Benson, President Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture in 1959
1543
1544"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
1545
1546"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."    -- Aristotle
1547
1548"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
1549
1550"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
1551
1552"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 (Federalist 46)
1553
1554"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' (1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764)
1555
1556~ Everything you say is a lie, including the words 'and' and 'the'. ~   -- a paraphrase of Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman
1557
1558“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
1559
1560'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
1561
1562'A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims ... but accomplices.'    -- George Orwell
1563
1564'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
1565
1566'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 (anon zbf)
1567
1568'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.'    -- George Orwell
1569
1570'Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.'    -- Max Planck
1571
1572'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'    -- George Orwell
1573
1574'Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.'    -- Henry Thomas Buckle
1575
1576'If you thought science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.'    -- Richard Feynman
1577
1578'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.'    -- George Orwell
1579
1580'Sometimes I stop to think and forget to start again.'    -- anon
1581
1582'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
1583
1584'The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it.'    -- H.L. Mencken
1585
1586'We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.'    -- George Orwell
1587
1588What do you call 1000 lawyers on the bottom of the sea?   A good start.    -- anon
1589
1590'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.'    -- George Orwell
1591
1592'Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.'    -- Albert Einstein
1593
1594'You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.'    -- William J. H. Boetcker