DK - Some Great Quotes To Ponder

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Afternoon!

Thought you might enjoy a few quotes.

"There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself." Paul J. O'Rourke

"I am interested in polotics, so that one day I will not have to be interested in polotics." Ayn Rand

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good men to do nothing." Edmond Burke

"Nothing is so permanent, as a temporary government program." Milton Friedman

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." Thomas Jefferson

"When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny." Thomas Paine

"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right." Henry David Thoreau

"All men having power ought to be mistrusted." James Madison

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." Albert Einstein

"More law, less justice." Cicero

"Liberty is not the means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." Lord Acton

"The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual." F. A. Hayek

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." The Prisoner

SqrlGrl

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2001


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