To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one’s weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. Robyn Davidson
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always …
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. Ronald Reagan
June 6, 1994, on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, Normandy, France.
War is about killing people. Civilian casualties are unavoidable. Mara Liasson National …
War is about killing people. Civilian casualties are unavoidable. Mara Liasson
National Public Radio (U.S.)
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. …
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. Mahatma Ghandi
There is no difficulty in deciding a case – only hear both sides …
There is no difficulty in deciding a case – only hear both sides patiently, then consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly; but never give your reasons, for your judgement will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. Lord Mansfield
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which …
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. Thomas Jefferson
The politically (in)correct progressives, socialists, bleeding hearts and so-called liberals …
The politically (in)correct progressives, socialists, bleeding hearts and so-called liberals hold us individually responsible for nothing, but collectively responsible for everything. Richard B.Boddie
Banning guns is an idea whose time has come. U.S. Senator …
Banning guns is an idea whose time has come. U.S. Senator Joseph Biden 11/18/93 Associated PressThe people never give up their liberty but under some delusion. Sir Edmund Burke, 1784A free people ought..to be armed… George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
Fallacies take strongest hold not when they are flatly stated, but when …
Fallacies take strongest hold not when they are flatly stated, but when they are buried in euphemism, assumption and implicit analogy, then repeated a thousand times in public discourse. So Wesley Clark refers to:1. ‘share of national income,’which implies a zero-sum game. Tiger Woods has a very high ‘share of national birdies.’ Therefore what exactly? Let’s redistribute some of his birdies to my scorecard?2. ‘the fortunate few.’ He makes no mention of any factor other than good fortune to explain why someone might earn more money than someone else. I used to think Tiger had achieved something great. Wesley Clark knows it was only luck. Barry Milliken
Wall Street Journal, Letters, January 14, 2004
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn …
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson