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"The truth is extreme, to make it moderate is to lie." - Aaron Hawkins

"Let freedom never perish in your hands." - Joseph Addison

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."- Johann von Goethe

"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." - Anonymous

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

"History is a set of rules agreed upon" - Napoleon Bonapart

"Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens." - Edgar A. Suter

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus

"The past can't see you, but the future is listening." - Terri Guillemets

"Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one." - Chinese Proverb

"Anybody listening to me will realize that these are indeed Historic Broadcast's and by making them i have sealed my fate" - Bill Cooper

"Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough." - Arthur Freed

"Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others." - Pema Chodron

"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom." - Merry Browne

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader" - Plato

“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

― Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers

"The truth is extreme, to make it moderate is to lie." - Aaron Hawkins "Let freedom never perish in your hands." - Joseph Addison "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."- Johann von Goethe "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." - Anonymous "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates "History is a set of rules agreed upon" - Napoleon Bonapart "Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens." - Edgar A. Suter "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus "The past can't see you, but the future is listening." - Terri Guillemets "Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one." - Chinese Proverb "Anybody listening to me will realize that these are indeed Historic Broadcast's and by making them i have sealed my fate" - Bill Cooper "Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough." - Arthur Freed "Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others." - Pema Chodron "Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom." - Merry Browne "When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader" - Plato “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.” ― Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers

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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

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

  • C.S. Lewis

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

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

  • Montesquieu