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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I work for nothing but my own profit — which I make by …
I work for nothing but my own profit — which I make by selling a product they need to men who are willing and able to buy it. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
The only difference between the politics of liberalism and the politics of …
The only difference between the politics of liberalism and the politics of hate is the packaging and delivery method. Gerry Hildenbrand
Sighted Sub, Sank Same. Donald Francis Mason Message sent by an enlisted …
Sighted Sub, Sank Same.
Donald Francis Mason
Message sent by an enlisted pilot, AMM 1/c Donald Francis Mason, on 28 January 1942. Mason believed that he had sunk a German U-boat off Argentia, Newfoundland.
People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging …
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
The Probability Broach
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on everything … …
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on everything … are one of the greatest curses that can afflict people. Brooks Adams
writer-historian and grandson of President John Quincy Adams (1878)
The surplus is not the government’s money. The surplus is the …
The surplus is not the government’s money. The surplus is the people’s money. George W. Bush
August 3, 2000, Philadelphia, PA.
Read much, but not many books. Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790…
Read much, but not many books.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity …
While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally expected from them in return, that they will be emulous of evincing the sanctity of their professions by the innocence of their lives, and the beneficence of their actions: for no man, who is profligate in his morals, or a bad member of the civil community, can possibly be a true Christian, or a credit to his own religious society. George Washington
New Hampshire is already a cold place, but the day we pass …
New Hampshire is already a cold place, but the day we pass an income tax we’ll enter hell. And it’ll be an even colder day there. Bob Clegg
New Hampshire state Representative on the attempt to pass an income tax, U.S. News and World Report, April 12, 1999.