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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
Rise up, America -- and laugh out loud at the greatest gaffes that no spin doctor could possibly fix!


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


Quotable Quotes
Wit and Wisdom for All Occasions from America's Most Popular Magazine


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
A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology


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
Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman


Thomas Paine: Collected Writings
All the classics: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters

 
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. 
Howard ScottCRIMINAL: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. 
James C. ScottThe aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'. 
Rick ScottIt is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach. 
Sir Walter ScottO, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! 
Sir Walter ScottO, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! 
Brent ScowcroftWe believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms. 
Roger ScrutonThe welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude. 
Vin ScullySocialism, failing to work as it always does. This time in Venezuela. You talk about giving everybody something free and all of a sudden, there’s no food to eat. And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela? The daughter of Hugo Chavez. Hello! 
John SeabrookThe net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever. 
Second Monument to Shays' RebellionTrue Liberty and Justice may require resistance to law . 
John SeldenIf the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to. 
Patrick SemmonsUnion bosses will continue to use workers’ dues money as a slush fund to support controversial causes and organizations as long as union officials are empowered to order a worker fired simply for refusing to pay money to the union. 
Senate Report, 93rd CongressSince March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency....Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens. ... A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency....from, at least, the Civil War in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDemocracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is quality rather than quantity that matters. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMost powerful is he who has himself in his own power. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFreedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaEnjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLuck is where preparation meets opportunity. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLaws do not persuade just because they threaten. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaEvery man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhat is freedom? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any restraint, to any chance. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNo man is free who is a slave to the flesh. [Lat., Nemo liber est, qui corpori servit.] 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAs long as you live, keep learning how to live. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDeath is a release from and an end of all pains: beyond it our sufferings cannot extend: it restores us to the peaceful rest in which we lay before we were born. If anyone pities the dead, he ought also to pity those who have not been born. Death is neither a good nor a bad thing, for that alone which is something can be a good or a bad thing: but that which is nothing, and reduces all things to nothing, does not hand us over to either fortune, because good and bad require some material to work upon. Fortune cannot take ahold of that which Nature has let go, nor can a man be unhappy if he is nothing. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt would be some consolation for the feebleness of ourselves and our works, if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGrowth is slow but collapse is rapid. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNothing lasts forever, few things even last for long: all are susceptible of decay in one way or another; moreover all that begins also ends. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhat need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA great fortune is a great slavery. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWho profits by a sin has done the sin. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaUnjust rule never abides continually. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWho can be forced has not learned how to die. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWho vaunts his race, lauds what belongs to others. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThings ’twas hard to bear ’tis pleasant to recall. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWorse than war is the very fear of war. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaArms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaUnrighteous fortune seldom spares the highest worth; no one with safety can long front so frequent perils. Whom calamity oft passes by she finds at last. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOf war men ask the outcome, not the cause. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaImpurity is caused by attitude, not events. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOnce again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHe who, when he may, forbids not sin, commands it. 
Lucius Annaeus Seneca'Tis the first art of kings, the power to suffer hate. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAll art is but imitation of nature. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhat," say you, "are you giving me advice? Indeed, have you already advised yourself, already corrected your own faults? Is this the reason why you have leisure to reform other men?" No, I am not so shameless as to undertake to cure my fellow-men when I am ill myself. I am, however, discussing with you troubles which concern us both, and sharing the remedy with you, just as if we were lying ill in the same hospital. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLive among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThat is why we give to children a proverb, or that which the Greeks call Chreia, to be learned by heart; that sort of thing can be comprehended by the young mind, which cannot as yet hold more. For a man, however, whose progress is definite, to chase after choice extracts and to prop his weakness by the best known and the briefest sayings and to depend upon his memory, is disgraceful; it is time for him to lean on himself. He should make such maxims and not memorize them. For it is disgraceful even for an old man, or one who has sighted old age, to have a note-book knowledge. "This is what Zeno said." But what have you yourself said? "This is the opinion of Cleanthes." But what is your own opinion? How long shall you march under another man's orders? Take command, and utter some word which posterity will remember. Put forth something from your own stock. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNo man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is too late to spare when you reach the dregs of the cask. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFor sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOur plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDrunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFor love of bustle is not industry – it is only the restlessness of a hunted mind. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA golden bit does not make a better horse. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFor we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDon't ask for what you'll wish you hadn't got. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTreat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMy master Attalus used to say: "Evil herself drinks the largest portion of her own poison." The poison which serpents carry for the destruction of others, and secrete without harm to themselves, is not like this poison; for this sort is ruinous to the possessor. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhat fools these mortals be! 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOf course, however, the living voice and the intimacy of a common life will help you more than the written word. You must go to the scene of action, first, because men put more faith in their eyes than in their ears, and second, because the way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWithdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNot lost, but gone before. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy. 
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFriendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm 


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