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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

 
Mark TwainThe history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. 
Mark TwainOne of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed in it. They have also believed the world was flat. 
Mark TwainDon't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. 
Mark TwainNext the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. 
Mark TwainWe are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics. 
Mark TwainFleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can. 
Mark TwainI am aware that when even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition... (more) 
Mark TwainIrreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense. 
Mark TwainWhen we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. 
Mark TwainAll Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. 
Mark TwainI have never let my schooling interfere with my education. 
Mark TwainFew things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. 
Mark TwainTravel is lethal to prejudice. 
Mark TwainWhen I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. 
Mark TwainMy kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. 
Mark TwainWe are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. 
Mark TwainIt is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. 
Mark TwainThe mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise. 
Mark TwainLoyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. 
Mark TwainEach must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of. 
Mark TwainKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. 
Mark TwainAdam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant. 
Mark TwainFor in a Republic, who is "the country?" Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. 
Mark TwainClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. 
Mark TwainI wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars. 
Mark TwainWhenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. 
Mark TwainPrinciples have no real force except when one is well-fed. 
Mark TwainDo the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. 
Mark TwainIt is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. 
Mark TwainIf you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. 
Mark TwainDuties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself. 
Mark TwainFew things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. 
Mark TwainWhen in doubt, tell the truth. 
Mark TwainMan is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to. 
Mark TwainThere is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. 
Mark TwainOften the less there is to justify a traditional custom the harder it is to get rid of it. 
Mark TwainIt is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many people can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval. 
Mark TwainI reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it. 
Mark TwainThe only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. 
Mark Twain[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more. 
Mark TwainReader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. 
Mark TwainIt usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. 
Mark TwainGod made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. 
Mark TwainIf you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. 
Mark TwainTruth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. 
Mark TwainI am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. 
William Marcy TweedAs long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it? 
William Marcy TweedI don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating. 
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.According to the Taranto Principle, the press's failure to hold left-wingers accountable for bad behavior merely encourages the left's bad behavior to the point that its candidates are repellent to ordinary Americans. 
Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (Questionable)A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. 
Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (Questionable)The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complaceny to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again into bondage. 
Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (Questionable)A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.... The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again to bondage. 
Sun TzuWhen the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this. 
Sun TzuIn all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close. 
Sun TzuThose who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and justice and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible. 
Sun TzuIf you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. 
Sun TzuAll warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. 
Stewart L. UdallWe have, I fear, confused power with greatness. 
UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice[The problem is]...small arms are spreading throughout society with little documentation, since they are frequently bought from private individuals. 
Miguel de Unamuno y JugoThe skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found. 
Unidentified diplomat[The Clinton Administration] may find it useful to invoke the commitments made here [in the UN] to Americans as a lever to persuade the gun lobby. 
United Nations' Loyalty OathI solemnly affirm to exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience ... in the interest of the United Nations ... and not to seek or accept instructions ... from any government or other authority external to the organization... 
United Nations' World Constitution (False)The age of nations must end... The governments of the nations have decided to order their separate sovereignties into one government to which they surrender their arms. 
United NationsEveryone has the right…to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers. 
United NationsEveryone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others, and in public or in private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. 
United States ConstitutionNo state shall emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, coin money... 
United States ConstitutionNo State shall... coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts... 
United States Supreme Court... [the 16th Amendment] conferred no new power of taxation... [and]... prohibited the ... power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged... 
United States Supreme CourtThe Constitution is a written instrument. As such it's meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now. 
United States Supreme Court...the intent of the lawmaker is to be found in the language that he has used. 
United States Supreme CourtTo lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is nonetheless a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms. 
United States Supreme CourtBecause of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface, many Citizens, because of their respect for what appears to be law, are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights due to ignorance. 
United States Supreme CourtOur tax system is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint. 
United States Supreme CourtThe Constitution prohibits any direct tax, unless in proportion to numbers as ascertained by the census..... [and] ... prohibits Congress from laying a direct tax on the revenue from property of the citizen without regard to state lines... 
United States Supreme Court... bank records are not the depositor's private papers and having given the information to the bank, the depositor has no legitimate expectation of continued privacy... Records of an individual's accounts with banks are not the individual's private papers protected against compulsory production by the 4th Amendment, but instead are the business records of the banks. 


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