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Quote 2077

The nobler the language, the more nefarious the purpose of any legal instrument.— Mel Tappan

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Quote 2078

The ultimate defense of our liberties is in three boxes:* the ballot box * the jury box * the ammo box.When the first two failed them, the Founders had to reluctantly turn to the third. I hope we never...

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Quote 2111

Libertarian means individualism, property rights, free markets, and the right of sovereign human beings to do as they choose short of initiating force, intimidation, or fraud against others.— Garry Reed

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Quote 2136

It is more beneficial that many guilty persons should escape unpunished than one innocent person should suffer, because it is of more importance that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt...

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Quote 2137

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.— Thomas Paine

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Quote 2138

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.— Edward Abbey

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Quote 2139

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others— Edward Abbey

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Quote 2140

Grown men do not need leaders.— Edward Abbey

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Quote 2141

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.— Edward Abbey

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Quote 2143

Yet all knowledge conceals within it danger to a greater or lesser degree. If it did not, governments would not be so anxious to regulate it.— Lord Eiipul IX

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Quote 2144

"No."I refuse. So long as consciousness remains, so long as cognizance holds sway, so long as I can function as a thinking being, I repudiate the notion of capitulation."However fruitless the effort...

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Quote 2145

He hated the idea of practicing law, instead of doing something useful, of making his profession the manipulation of rules passed by a bunch of legislators during brief breaks between being bribed and...

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Quote 2153

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion--i.e., none to speak of.— Woodrow Wilson Smith

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Quote 2228

Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant; let it get rich and powerful and it's your master.— H. Beam Piper

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Quote 2229

When a bureaucrat doesn't take a bribe, you know you're in real trouble.— CIA operative

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Quote 2245

"The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys."— Heinlein, Robert A.

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