The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and frompig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. George Orwell
Animal Farm.
Thus respect for the freedom of someone else constitutes the highest duty …
Thus respect for the freedom of someone else constitutes the highest duty of men. The only virtue is to love this freedom and serve it. This is the basis of all morality, and there is no other basis. Mikhail Bakunin
The Program of the Alliance of International Revolution
Find out just what the people will submit to and you have …
Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found outthe exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed uponthem; and these will continue until they are resisted with either wordsor blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by theendurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass
We’re not really going to get anywhere until we take the …
We’re not really going to get anywhere until we take the criminality out of drugs. George P. Schultz
Secretary of State George P. Schultz, PBS, McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, December 18, 1989
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[The Democratic party] is the party that wants to use political power to tax us not for any common good, but to eat while we work. Harry V. Jaffa
Abraham Lincoln on the essence of slavery and government jobs [as reported in a Wall Street Journal article by Jaffa, September 12, 1996]
As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they …
As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. . . by an inevitable chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. George Mason
at the Constitutional Congress
He [Sen. Barry Goldwater
He [Sen. Barry Goldwater] spoke of freedom: freedom from the governments increasing demands on the family purse, freedom from the governmentOs increasing usurpation of individual rights and responsibilities, freedom from the leaders who told us the price of world peace is acquiescence to totalitarianism. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, Mar 8, 1985
spoke of freedom: freedom from the governments increasing … ]
Great men can’t be ruled. Ayn Rand The Fountainhead, 1943. (1905-…
Great men can’t be ruled.
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, 1943. (1905-1982)
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a …
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau
The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth …
The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both the law and the facts. Oliver Wendell Holmes
1920. Supreme Court Justice.