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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
A classic since 1953 with over 20,000 quotes from over 3,000 authors.


Famous Last Words
Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bons Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure


Stretch Your Wings
Famous Black Quotations for the Young


American Quotations
An exhaustive collection of profound quotes from the founding fathers, presidents, statesmen, scientists, constitutions, court decisions


The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations


Last Words of Saints and Sinners
700 Final Quotes from the Famous, the Infamous, and the Inspiring Figures of History


America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations
Contains over 2,100 profound quotations from founding fathers, presidents, constitutions, court decisions and more


The Law
This 1850 classic is an absolute must read for anyone interested in law, justice, truth, or liberty. A most compelling and revolutionary look at The Law.


Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition)


The Stupidest Things Ever Said by Politicians
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The 776 Even Stupider Things Ever Said
Another great collection of stupidity


Quotable Quotes
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The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time
You don't have to be a genius to sound like one. Here's a collection of the most profound and provocative wit and wisdom in the English language in two lines or less.


2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs
Invaluable sampler of witticisms, epigrams, sayings, bon mots, platitudes and insights chosen for their brevity and pithiness.


Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts Funny Sayings
A stupendous collection of quotes, quips, epigrams, witticisms, and humorous comments for personal enjoyment and ready reference.


Quick Quips and Quotes; 532 Things I Wish I Had Said
Quick Quips and Quotes is the Ultimate Collection of one liners.


Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
The ultimate anthology of anecdotes, now revised with over 700 new entries.


Quotations for Public Speakers
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Liberty - The American Revolution
This compelling series traces the events leading up to the war and America's fight for freedom.


Founding Fathers
The story of how these disparate characters fomented rebellion in the colonies, formed the Continental Congress, fought the Revolutionary War, and wrote the Constitution


Libertarianism: A Primer
David Boaz, director of the Cato Institute, has written a simple introduction to Libertarianism inteneded to appeal to disgruntled Democrats and Republicans everywhere.


The Libertarian Reader
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Thomas Paine: Collected Writings
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Justice Antonin ScaliaAs long as judges tinker with the Constitution to ‘do what the people want,’ instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically. 
Justice Antonin ScaliaThe virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly. 
Justice Antonin ScaliaThe Declaration of Independence, however, is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to "deny or disparage" other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.  
Justice Antonin ScaliaWe know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding ‘interest-balancing’ approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government -- even the Third Branch of Government -- the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all. Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the people adopted them, whether or not future legislatures or (yes) even future judges think that scope too broad... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct. 
Justice Antonin ScaliaThe basic problem is simply that the Congress has become professionalized. It has interest much higher than ever existed before in remaining in office. It has a bureaucracy that is serving it. It is much more subject to the power of individualized pressure groups as opposed to the unorganized feelings of the majority of the citizens. 
Justice Antonin ScaliaIn Torcaso v. Watkins, (1961), we did indeed refer to ‘secular humanism’ as a ‘religion.' 
Robert SchaeberleIf we can ever make red tape nutritional, we can feed the world. 
Leonard SchapiroNo one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance. 
John ScharrSurely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently “insiders” know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state. 
Eric SchaubThe Truth is not a thing. It is alive. It cannot be grasped. It is spoken. 
Eric SchaubLife is but a blink, and it matters. 
Eric SchaubAmericans find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another. America is the land of the free and home of the brave -- we don't need a Patriot Act, because we are already patriots. We know freedom means responsibility, but I am not sure Congress and its domestic enforcement agencies do. More often than not, new security measures enacted by the government have resulted in more violations of the citizenry than terrorists have ever done. The terrorists want us to be afraid -- well, we are not afraid. Stop wasting dollars on this program -- it is not good for America. To give up essential liberty for a little security provides neither. The right to be left alone from government intrusion is the beginning of all freedoms. 
Eric SchaubIt's worth what it's worth when it's worth it. 
Eric SchaubSpeak honestly, and the truth will make itself known. 
Eric SchaubFreedom is risky. Nature makes no promises. 
Eric SchaubI cannot free another, and no one can free me. Freedom is acquired with the responsibility that sustains it. 
Eric SchaubIf you want to know the big 'T' Truth, tell the little 't' truth without fail. Then listen closely to what you say. 
Eric SchaubA seeker of truth is no stranger to controversy. 
Eric SchaubSome mistakes cannot be redeemed but by forgiveness. 
Eric SchaubTruth need only be spoken. 
Eric SchaubWhen it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires. 
Eric SchaubThe more I truly learn, I realize the less I truly know. 
Eric SchaubWe are the living. There are those that have preceded us, and there are those that will follow us, but we are here now.. The river flows, we are but a drop, and it matters... 
Eric SchaubRemember, the sky starts at your feet. 
Eric SchaubFreedom has never been free. Sometimes it costs everything you've got. 
Eric SchaubStanding up to a tyrant has always been illegal and dangerous. There is no guarantee but one -- to not live like a slave, nor to die like one. 
Eric SchaubAmong the mighty are those who recognize beauty as power, and power as beautiful. 
Eric SchaubIt takes two wings to fly. 
Eric SchaubEvery party skews the facts to their advantage, and inevitably, the minority party must resort to telling the truth. 
Eric SchaubCan we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us? 
Eric SchaubThere is no Freedom without Courage. 
Eric SchaubLife is a gift. Freedom is a responsibility. 
Eric SchaubBy a Declaration, Liberty is born. With Courage she is nourished, and with unceasing Commitment she is guarded. 
Eric SchaubThe truth is more important than its teller. 
Eric SchaubThe process of liberation is continuous. 
Eric SchaubSome truths need to be learned from the inside. 
Eric SchaubI am not free until I say so. And there's a good chance I am going to have to fight once I do. Ever since I declared my Independence, I have had to support and defend it. 
Eric SchaubThe truth doesn't sell. It is high in supply, but low in demand. 
Eric SchaubOur inalienable rights cannot shield us from our own follies. 
Eric SchaubThe 'strength' of the People becomes weak when we don't 'exercise' our rights. 
Alan W. ScheflinA juror who is forced by the judge’s instructions to convict a defendant whose conduct he applauds or at the least feels is justifiable, will lose respect for the legal system. . . . A juror compelled to decide against his own judgment will rebel at the system that made him a traitor to himself. 
Felix Emmanuel SchellingTrue education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world. 
Felix E. SchellingTrue education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world. 
Irwin SchiffIf you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend. 
Lisa SchiffenFamilies would be in better shape if our tax code didn’t push married mothers who wish to raise their own children into the labor force, in large part to pay for a welfare state that encourages unskilled, unmarried teenagers to bear illegitimate children the rest of us must support. 
Friedrich SchillerNo, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! \\ When the oppressed man finds no justice, \\ When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals \\ With fearless heart to Heaven, \\ And thence brings down his everlasting rights, \\ Which there abide, inalienably his, \\ And indestructible as stars themselves. \\ The primal state of nature reappears, \\ Wherein man confronts his fellow man; \\ And if all other means shall fail his need, \\ One last resort remains—his own good sword. \\ The dearest of our goods we may defend From violence. \\ We stand before our country, \\ We stand before our wives, before our children!\\ 
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life. 
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Righteousness is easy in retrospect. 
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics. 
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue... 
Dr. Laura SchlessingerIntegrity is its own reward. 
Dr. Laura SchlessingerThe Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people. 
Benno C. SchmidtPrivacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government – but the reverse… If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom… 
Benno C. SchmidtThe most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind….Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning… 
Kurt L. SchmokeDecriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets. 
Bruce SchneierIt is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. 
Ken SchoollandFor thousands of years, the tireless effort of productive men and women has been spent trying to reduce the distance between communities of the world by reducing the costs of commerce and trade. Over the same span of history, the slothful and incompetent protectionist has endlessly sought to erect barriers in order to prohibit competition—thus, effectively moving communities farther apart. When trade is cut off entirely, the real producers may as well be on different planets. The protectionist represents the worst in humanity: fear of change, fear of challenge, and the jealous envy of genius. The protectionist is not against the use of every kind of force, even warfare, to crush his rival. If mankind is to survive, then these primeval fears must be defeated. 
Ken SchoollandUsing governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth. 
Arthur SchopenhauerHe who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom. 
Arthur SchopenhauerAll truth passes through 3 stages.\\ First, it is ridiculed.\\ Second, it is violently opposed.\\ Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. 
J. Neil SchulmanGun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people. 
Bob SchultzDo we still recognize [the Constitution of the United States of America] as the basis of our system of government in America, or not? Do we still have a constitution that guarantees our unalienable rights as the sovereign citizens of a great and free nation, or not? Do we have a federal government and state governments that honor and defend the fundamental principles of equal justice, due process or law, the right to life, liberty, and property - the principles that represent the very foundation of our constitutional form of government, or not? We the People have a right to know the truth. We have a right to know if we still have a Constitution. 
Charles M. SchulzDon't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. 
Joseph A. SchumpeterThe religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is unapproved of not only intellectually but also morally. 
Edwin M. SchurThe uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population. 
Edwin M. Schur[When a victimless criminal] is treated as an enemy of society, he almost necessarily becomes one. Forced into criminal acts, immersed in underworld-related supply networks, and ever-conscious of the need to evade the police, his outlooks as well as behavior become more and more anti-social. 
Carl SchurzIf you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. 
Carl SchurzFrom the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. 
Peter SchwartzThe core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective -- the race -- is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of  'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism -- that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage. 
General H. Norman SchwarzkopfCharacter is the single most important ingredient of leadership. Proper leadership would have prevented the wars in Kosovo and Somalia. 
General H. Norman SchwarzkopfLeadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. 
General H. Norman SchwarzkopfThe truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. 
Albert SchweitzerI have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. 
Albert SchweitzerI don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found a way to serve. 
C. P. ScottThe newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred. 


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