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As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
-- Buddha		 
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
-- Buddha		 
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
-- Buddha		 
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
-- Buddha		 
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
-- Buddha		 
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
-- Buddha		 
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
-- Buddha		 
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
-- Buddha		 
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha		 
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
-- Buddha		 
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
-- Buddha		 
Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-- Buddha		 
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
-- Buddha		 
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
-- Buddha		 
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
-- Buddha		 
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
-- Buddha		 
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
-- Buddha		 
Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings…that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
-- Buddha		 
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
-- Buddha		 
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
-- Buddha		 
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-- Buddha		 
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
-- Buddha		 
To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
-- Buddha		 
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
-- Buddha		 
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
-- Buddha		 
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
-- Buddha		 
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
-- Buddha		 
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
-- Buddha		 
Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
-- Buddha		 
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
-- Buddha		 
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
-- Buddha		 
We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
-- Buddha		 
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
-- Buddha		 
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
-- Buddha		 
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-- Buddha		 
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
-- Buddha		 
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
-- Buddha		 
Born out of concern for all beings.
-- Buddha		 
A jug fills drop by drop.
-- Buddha		 
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
-- Buddha		 
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
-- Buddha		 
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
-- Buddha		 
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
-- Buddha		 
There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.
-- Buddha		 
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
-- Buddha		 
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
-- Buddha		 
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
-- Buddha		 
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
-- Buddha		 
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else.
-- Buddha		 
Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
-- Buddha		 
If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.
-- Buddha		 
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
-- Buddha		 
Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.
-- Buddha		 
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
-- Buddha		 
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
-- Buddha		 
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha		 
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
-- Buddha		 
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
-- Buddha		 
All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
-- Buddha		 
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
-- Buddha		 
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
-- Buddha		 
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
-- Buddha		 
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
-- Buddha		 
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
-- Buddha		 
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
-- Buddha		 
He is able who thinks he is able.
-- Buddha		 
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
-- Buddha		 
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
-- Buddha		 

-- Buddha		 
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
-- Buddha		 
Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
-- Buddha		 
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
-- Buddha		 
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
-- Buddha		 
What we think, we become.
-- Buddha		 
They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.
-- Buddha		 
To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
-- Buddha		 
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
-- Buddha		 
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
-- Buddha		 
Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenished.
-- Buddha		 
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
-- Buddha		 
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
-- Buddha		 
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
-- Buddha		 
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
-- Buddha		 
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
-- Buddha		 
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
-- Buddha		 
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
-- Buddha		 
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
-- Buddha		 
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
-- Buddha		 
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
-- Buddha		 
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
-- Buddha		 
You are all the Buddha.
-- Buddha		 
Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.
-- Warren Buffett		 
...it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.
-- Warren Buffett		 
Marihuana is a more dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine. I am surprised to learn that certain police officers have been inclined to minimize the effects of the use of marihuana. They would, I am sure, be convinced that the drug is adhering to its Old World traditions of murder, assault, rape, physical demoralization, and mental breakdown. A study of the effects of marihuana shows clearly that it is a dangerous drug, and Bureau records prove that its use is associated with insanity and crime.
-- Bulletin of the FBI		 
No 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.
-- Alan Bullock		 
'Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes.
-- Christopher Bullock		 
The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton		 
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton		 
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton		 
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton		 
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton		 
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton		 
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
-- Luther Burbank		 
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.
-- Justice Warren E. Burger		 
There can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right” and the Amish or others like them are “wrong.” A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
-- Justice Warren E. Burger		 
... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.
-- Justice Warren E. Burger		 
There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.
-- Justice Warren E. Burger		 
Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
-- Justice Warren E. Burger		 
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
-- Frank Gelett Burgess		 
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.
-- James Burgh		 
All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.
-- James Burgh		 
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
-- Edmund Burke		 
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
-- Edmund Burke		 
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
-- Edmund Burke		 
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The use of force alone is but temporary.  It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
-- Edmund Burke		 
To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.
-- Edmund Burke		 
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
-- Edmund Burke		 
It is by this tribunal that statesmen [are tried] not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence but upon the enlarged and solid principles of morality.
-- Edmund Burke		 
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
-- Edmund Burke		 
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
-- Edmund Burke		 
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
-- Edmund Burke		 
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.
-- Edmund Burke		 
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
-- Edmund Burke		 
People crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous...
-- Edmund Burke		 
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
-- Edmund Burke		 
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
-- Edmund Burke		 
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded. ... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.
-- Edmund Burke		 
In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
-- Edmund Burke		 
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
-- Edmund Burke		 
There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
-- Edmund Burke		 
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
-- Edmund Burke		 
There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
-- Edmund Burke		 
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
-- Edmund Burke		 
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
-- Edmund Burke		 
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
-- Edmund Burke		 
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.
-- Edmund Burke		 
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
-- Edmund Burke		 
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Guns are used for self-defense somewhere between 800,000 and 3.6 million times per year .... Using firearm crime and defensive gun use figures most favorable to advocates for stricter gun control, ... the benefits from defensive gun uses exceed the cost of violent firearm crimes ... by between $90 million and $3.5 billion. Using the most credible estimate for defensive gun uses, the benefits range from $1 billion to $38 billion. Putting these dollar figures in more human terms: Guns save lives. The fact is that the best defense against violence is an armed response. For example, women faced with assault are 2.5 times less likely to suffer serious injury if they defend themselves with a gun rather than responding with other weapons or by offering no resistance. ... [P]ersons defending themselves with guns during an assault are injured only 12 percent of the time, compared to 25 percent for those using other weapons, 27 percent for those offering no resistance and nearly 26 percent of those who flee. ... [F]irearms are the safest, most effective way to protect oneself against criminal activity -- which is why American police officers carry guns rather than going unarmed or merely carrying knives.
-- H. Sterling Burnett		 
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
-- George Burns		 
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
-- Robert Burns		 
Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
-- Robert Burns		 
Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.
-- William S. Burroughs		 
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
-- William S. Burroughs		 
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, From none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
-- Sir Richard Francis Burton		 
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
-- Sir Richard Francis Burton		 
As compared with impulsive commitment to the first idea which dawns, that is, with intuitive action, reasoning is patient, exploratory of other possibilities, and deliberative.
-- Edwin Arthur Burtt		 
Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but what happens inside your house.
-- Barbara Bush		 
[The war in Iraq is] a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times...a new world order can emerge.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
If we do not follow the dictates of our moral compass and stand up for human life, then this lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging new world order we now see, this long dreamed-of vision we’ve all worked toward for so long.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
It was just one year ago that the world saw this new, invigorated United Nations in action as this Council stood fast against aggression and stood for the sacred principles enshrined in the U.N. Charter. And now it's time to step forward again, make the internal reforms, accelerate the revitalization, accept the responsibilities necessary for a vigorous and effective United Nations. I want to assure the members of this Council and the Secretary-General, the United Nations can count on our full support in this task.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
For two centuries we’ve done the hard work of freedom. And tonight we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity. What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea—a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
We will succeed in the Gulf. And when we do, the world community will have sent an enduring warning to any dictator or despot, present or future, who contemplates outlaw aggression. The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a new world order—where brutality will go unrewarded, and aggression will meet collective resistance.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
Ultimately, our objective is to welcome the Soviet Union back into the world order. Perhaps the world order of the future will truly be a family of nations.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the rule of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the UN’s founders.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush (False)		 
If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.
-- George W. Bush		 
We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.
-- George W. Bush		 
We have every reason to assume the worst.
-- George W. Bush		 
Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be.
-- George W. Bush		 
The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today.
-- George W. Bush		 
I don’t give a goddamn. I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. ... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!
-- George W. Bush		 
We will fight with full force and might of the United States military.
-- George W. Bush		 
Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.
-- George W. Bush		 
We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.
-- George W. Bush		 
I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want -- I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.
-- George W. Bush		 
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.
-- George W. Bush		 
There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.
-- George W. Bush		 
The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's], and if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him in the name of Peace.
-- George W. Bush		 
I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office and foreign policy matters with war on my mind.
-- George W. Bush		 
And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.
-- George W. Bush		 
If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.
-- George W. Bush		 
There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world.
-- George W. Bush		 
There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there [in Iraq]. My answer is, 'Bring 'em on.'
-- George W. Bush		 
We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.
-- George W. Bush		 
Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.
-- George W. Bush		 
During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can’t say anything more.
-- George W. Bush		 
Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists -- and every government that supports them.
-- George W. Bush		 
They misunderestimated me.
-- George W. Bush		 
We're too great a nation to allow the evildoers to affect our soul.
-- George W. Bush		 
Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.
-- Vannevar Bush		 
My liberty is not for sale.
-- Edward Bushell		 
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.
-- Bishop Joseph Butler		 
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler		 
The old world order died with the setting of that day’s sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler		 
Politics is the art of the possible.
-- R. A. Butler		 
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
-- Samuel Butler		 
The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary it is that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.
-- Samuel Butler		 
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
-- Samuel Butler		 
Authority intoxicates,\\ And makes mere sots of magistrates;\\ The fumes of it invade the brain,\\ And make men giddy, proud and vain.
-- Samuel Butler		 
There should be some schools called deformatories to which people are sent if they are too good to be practical.
-- Samuel Butler		 
I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
-- Samuel Butler		 
I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street...
-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 

-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 
No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.
-- Stephen T. Byington		 
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house. The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties. It will create a complicated machinery. Under it businessmen will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state. They will compel men of business to show their books and disclose the secrets of their affairs. They will dictate forms of bookkeeping. They will require statements and affidavits. On the one hand the inspector can blackmail the taxpayer and on the other, he can profit by selling his secret to his competitor.
-- Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.		 
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house.... The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.
-- Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.		 
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
-- Sen. Robert C. Byrd		 
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
-- Robert Byrne		 
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.
-- Lord Byron		 
Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
-- Lord Byron		 
For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.
-- Lord Byron		 
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
-- Lord Byron		 
The wish, which ages have not yet subdued In man, to have no master save his mood.
-- Lord Byron		 
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?
-- Lord Byron		 
He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace.
-- Lord Byron		 
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.
-- Lord Byron		 
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that "Carpe Diem" is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?
-- Lord Byron		 
I wish men to be free, as much from mobs as kings,—from you as me.
-- Lord Byron		 
The statute mandating recitation of the pledge [of allegiance] is secular because it aims to foster democracy, which is both necessary to the survival of the concept and entirely independent of religion. [...] It is clear in the 2001 [Virginia] state law that no student is forced to accept the beliefs the pledge espouses.
-- James C. Cacheris		 
When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you.
-- Gaius Julius Caesar		 
All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.
-- Gaius Julius Caesar		 
Men willingly believe what they wish.
-- Gaius Julius Caesar		 
Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword. It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect. And if the striking of the war drum reached a fiebrige height and the blood is cooking and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn't need to reject the citizens rights. The citizens, cought by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage. Why do I know that? I know it, because this is, what I did. And I am Gajus Julius Cäsar.
-- Gaius Julius Caesar (False)		 
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage		 
The people’s right to obtain information does not, of course, depend on any assured ability to understand its significance or use it wisely. Facts belong to the people simply because they relate to interests that are theirs, government that is theirs, and votes that they may desire to cast, for they are entitled to an active role in shaping every fundamental decision of state.
-- Edmond Cahn		 
“Due process,” a standard that arose in our system of law and stemmed from the desire to provide rational procedure and fair play, is equally indispensable in every other kind of social or political enterprise.
-- Edmond Cahn		 
Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the new wonderful good society which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, and more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.
-- Justice Millard Fillmore Caldwell		 
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ...
-- John C. Calhoun		 
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.
-- John C. Calhoun		 
The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.
-- John C. Calhoun		 
It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation.
-- John C. Calhoun		 
Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.
-- John C. Calhoun		 
Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.
-- John C. Calhoun		 
In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.
-- Oscar Callaway		 
I regret to say it, but we are gradually turning over the business of Congress, turning over all our constitutional rights, turning over our powers delegated by the people to a lot of editors, theorists, and college professors who are not capable of conducting our affairs and to whom we should not abdicate.
-- Oscar Callaway		 
It would not be unreasonable, by analogy with a motor vehicle licence, that a permit to reproduce should also be needed with a minimum age of, for example, twenty-five, and a proof required that the parents are of sufficient maturity and financial resource to take proper care of the child. Young, sexually active, but emotionally immature teenagers would need help.
-- Sir Roy Yorke Calne		 
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do...
-- Italo Calvino		 
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
-- Simon Cameron		 
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
-- Dalton Camp		 
When we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility.
-- C. Arthur Campbell		 
Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell! . . . . O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow.
-- Thomas Campbell		 
Today the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury.
-- William J. Campbell		 
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.
-- Albert Camus		 
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
-- Albert Camus		 
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
-- Albert Camus		 
Integrity has no need of rules.
-- Albert Camus		 
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
-- Albert Camus		 
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
-- Albert Camus		 
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-- Albert Camus		 
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-- Albert Camus		 
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
-- Albert Camus		 
I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
-- Albert Camus		 
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
-- Albert Camus		 
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
-- Albert Camus		 
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
-- Albert Camus		 
It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
-- Albert Camus		 
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-- Albert Camus		 
The aim of art, the aim of a life, can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
-- Albert Camus		 
The regulation prohibiting abusive comment that tends or is likely to expose a person or a group to hatred or contempt is necessary not only to avoid harm to the persons targeted, but also to ensure that Canadian values are respected for all Canadians. The broadcast of remarks that could expose individuals or groups to hatred or contempt can attract individuals to its cause and in the process create serious discord between various groups in Canadian society to the detriment of all of Canadian society. This harm undermines the cultural, political and social fabric of Canada which the Canadian broadcasting system is expressly meant to safeguard, enrich and strengthen. It also undermines the multicultural and multiracial nature of Canadian society, which the programming of the Canadian broadcasting system should reflect. Protection from the harms of abusive comment is for the benefit of all Canadians.
-- Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission		 
After listening to the recordings containing the remarks made by on-air personalities on 10 and 27 September and 8 October and reading the stenographic notes, the Commission identified several remarks about the complainant related to her physical attributes, and sexual attributes in particular. There are multiple references to the size of her breasts; [translation] 'her incredible set of boobs' ... The Commission considers that the remarks made about Ms. Chiasson were abusive and tended to expose her, and women in general, to contempt on the basis of sex, in contravention of section 3(b) of the Regulations. Further, the remarks do not meet the objectives of the broadcasting policy for Canada set out in the Act. The remarks did not meet the objective of high standard of programming required by section 3(1)(g) of the Act.
-- Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission		 
[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.
-- Candidus		 
A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.
-- Georg Cantor		 
Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance.
-- Mortimer Caplin		 
The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.
-- Father Robert F. Capon		 
When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
-- Al Capone		 
Remember to vote early -- and often.
-- Al Capone		 
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
-- Al Capone		 
You cannot become a truly effective advocate unless you know all sides of your subject thoroughly, opposing arguments as well as your own.
-- G. R. Capp		 
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
-- Orson Scott Card		 
It is time for our school systems to stop accepting the gospel of that false religion and start doing their due diligence. Our children should be taught about the demonstrable solar cycles; and the whole human-caused Global Warming theory, along with the Hockey Stick Hoax, should be taught only as another example, after Piltdown Man and pre-Copernican theories of planetary movement, of how science can be corrupted when ideology gets ahead of the data.
-- Orson Scott Card		 
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
-- Orson Scott Card		 
The only way to learn is by changing your mind.
-- Orson Scott Card		 
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
-- Justice Benjamin Cardozo		 
Of...freedom [of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
-- Justice Benjamin Cardozo		 
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
-- Justice Benjamin Cardozo		 
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
-- Justice Benjamin Cardozo		 
We, Negro Americans, sing with all loyal Americans:\\ My country 'tis of thee,\\ Sweet land of liberty,\\ Of thee I sing.\\ Land where my fathers died,\\ Land of the Pilgrims' pride\\ From every mountainside\\ Let freedom ring!\\ \\ That's exactly what we mean -- from every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia -- let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth -- may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!
-- Rev. Archibald Carey, Jr.		 
Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution -- the only necessary Law of the Constitution.
-- Richard Carlile		 
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
-- Thomas Carlyle		 
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
-- Thomas Carlyle		 
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man.
-- Thomas Carlyle		 
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling buisness: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
-- Thomas Carlyle		 
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. They never pauperize. They reach the aspiring and open to these chief treasures of the world -- those stored up in books. A taste for reading drives out lower tastes.
-- Andrew Carnegie		 
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
-- Andrew Carnegie		 
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
-- Andrew Carnegie		 
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
-- Andrew Carnegie		 
I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium... Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors.
-- Andrew Carnegie		 
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain -- and most fools do.
-- Dale Carnegie		 
As the federal government has progressively become larger over the decades, every significant introduction of government regulation, taxation and spending has been to the benefit of some big business.
-- Timothy P. Carney		 
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.
-- Hippolyte Lazare Carnot		 
I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone.
-- David Carr		 
...no nation which signs this [UN] Charter can justly maintain that any of its acts are its own business, or within its own domestic jurisdiction, if the security council says that these acts are a threat to the peace.
-- William Carr		 
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.
-- Charles Carroll		 
When I use a word...it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less....The question is...which is to be master -- that's all.
-- Lewis Carroll		 
Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
-- Lewis Carroll		 
My mother worked as a domestic, two, sometimes three jobs at a time because she didn’t want to be on welfare. She felt very strongly that if she gave up and went on welfare, that she would give up control of her life and of our lives, and I think she was probably correct about that. … But, one thing that she provided us was a tremendous example of what hard work is like.
-- Dr. Ben Carson		 
The more solid the family foundation, the more likely you are to be able to resist peer pressure. Human beings are social creatures. We all want to belong, we all have that desire, and we will belong, one way or another. If the family doesn’t provide that, the peers will, or a gang will, or you will find something to belong to. That’s why it becomes so critical for families with young children to understand what a critical anchor they are.
-- Dr. Ben Carson		 
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
-- Hodding Carter		 
The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
I think that every true reformer, every real friend of liberty, will agree with me in saying that if we must erect safeguards, they should be rather for the security of the individual than of the mass, and that our chiefest care must be to train the majority to respect the rights of the minority, to prevent the claims of the few from being trampled under foot by the caprice or passion of the many.
-- Sir Richard John Cartwright		 
The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That’s why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.
-- James Carville (Questionable)		 
For good or evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
-- Joyce Cary		 
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.
-- Joyce Cary		 
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted.  I don't accept it.
-- Pablo Casals		 
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
-- Pablo Casals		 
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-- Douglas Casey		 
The growth of drug-related crime is a far greater evil to society as a whole than drug taking. Even so, because we have been seduced by the idea that governments should legislate for our own good, very few people can see how dangerously absurd the present policy is.
-- John Casey		 
Considering that senior officials at the Internal Revenue Service are fully aware of the fact that there is no law currently in existence making a U.S. citizen liable for or required to pay either the income tax or the social security employment tax, only a truly generous citizen would, upon discovering this, continue to voluntarily donate these taxes to the government by allowing them to be withheld from his paycheck on a 100% voluntary W-4 withholding agreement. But, then again, the IRS would be dead in the water without the "voluntary (and docile) compliance" of employers and employees and has said so all along.
-- William Cash		 
The freedom to express varying and often opposing ideas is essential to a variety of conceptions of democracy. If democracy is viewed as essentially a process – a way in which collective decisions for a society are made – free expression is crucial to the openness of the process and to such characteristics as elections, representation of interests, and the like.
-- Jonathan D. Casper		 
Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don't believe it because it's not the truth they want to hear.
-- Helena Cassadine		 
In the end, legalization of certain substances may be the only way to bring prices down, and doing so may be the only remedy to some of the worst aspects of the drug plague: violence, corruption, and the collapse of the rule of law.
-- Jorge Castañeda		 
We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
-- Fidel Castro		 
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
-- Henry Cate VII		 
The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.
-- Willa Cather		 
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
-- Catherine of Siena		 
By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
-- Cato		 
...I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason...
-- Cato		 
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
-- Cato		 
Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech... Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech...
-- Cato		 
I must own, I know not what Treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason, in the eternal and original Nature of Things.
-- Cato		 
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
-- Cato the Younger		 
There are two kinds of restrictions on human liberty -- the restraint of law and that of custom. No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt		 
Most reporters are very sympathetic to gun-control agendas and will skew or lie outright about facts to promote them.
-- Dennis Cauchon		 
Each peso [or dollar] is a contract between the government and the peso holder. That contract guarantees that each peso -- as a unit of value that the holder has worked hard to get -- will be worth as much tomorrow as today. If the government breaks the contract, it's breaking the law. The only role of government in the economy should be to guarantee the integrity of market transactions.
-- Domingo Cavallo		 
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
-- Dick Cavett		 
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
-- Dick Cavett		 
It's about food. It’s about your home. It’s about your life. The government is worried about all of the above. All I’m saying is you should be worried they’re worried. Here’s why: They’re telling you that you can’t take care of yourself. You can’t be trusted with what you put in your mouth or what you sign on the mortgage dotted line. So they’ll tell you what to put in your mouth and they’ll save you from what you signed on that dotted line. Does anyone see a trend here? Personal responsibility has now become government responsibility.
-- Neil Cavuto		 
You had me on (before) to talk about the new world order ... I talk about it all the time ... It's one world now ... The council (Council on foreign Relations) can find, nurture and begin to put people in the kinds of jobs this country needs. And that's going to be one of the major enterprises of the Council under me..
-- Les Celb		 
Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
-- Cervantes		 
There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.
-- Aimè Cèsaire		 
Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.		 
The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk but to the majority that does not want to listen.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.		 
You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.		 
Freedom from something is not enough. It should also be freedom for something. Freedom is not safety but opportunity. Freedom ought to be a means to enable the press to serve the proper functions of communication in a free society.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.		 
The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk, but to the majority that does not want to listen.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.		 
The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.
-- Edmund B. Chaffee		 
One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle-class families of financial reserves. [It] has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State.
-- W. H. Chamberlin		 
One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.
-- W. H. Chamberlin		 
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.
-- Whittaker Chambers		 
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
-- Nicolas-Sebasstien Chamfort		 
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.
-- John Chancellor		 
Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.
-- Otis Chandler		 
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
-- Raymond Chandler		 
He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.
-- Raymond Chandler		 
Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
-- Gabrielle Chanel		 
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith...
-- William Ellery Channing		 
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin		 
At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
-- E. H. Chapin		 
Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own.
-- John Jay Chapman		 
Our duty, as men and women is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin		 
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Church charities lose their mission when the government provides food, shelter and income to the poor. And the non-poor no longer feel pressed to provide aid to those in need, be they aged parents or their unfortunate neighbors—“compassion” having become the province of the state.
-- Mona Charen		 
The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
-- Charles I		 
Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
-- Charles I		 
The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions.
-- Alexander Chase		 
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
-- Mary Ellen Chase		 
The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.
-- Justice Salmon Chase		 
If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. ... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
-- Salmon P. Chase		 
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
-- Samuel Chase		 
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
-- Samuel Chase		 
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
-- Stuart Chase		 
It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.
-- Dick Cheney (False)		 
The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world’s oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.
-- Dick Cheney		 
[A]fter unleashing the Red Guards … to serve his political purposes, Mao Zedong was no longer able to control them.
-- Nien Cheng		 
Day and night the city resounded with the loud noise of drums and gongs … looting and the ransacking of private homes … The violence of the Red Guards seemed to have escalated. … Articles in the newspapers … encouraged the Red Guards and congratulated them on their vandalism. They were … exhorted to be fearless in their work of toppling the old world and building a new one based on Mao’s teachings.
-- Nien Cheng		 
The newspaper announced that the mission of the Red Guards was to rid the country of the ‘Four Olds’: old culture, old customs, old habits, and old ways of thinking. There was no clear definition of ‘old’; it was left to the Red Guards to decide. First of all, they changed street names.
-- Nien Cheng		 
Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.
-- Lord Chesterfield		 
It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic--that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone’s account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
But there is another strong objection which I, one of the laziest of all the children of Adam, have against the Leisure State. Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master, for the machine would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion of how it was really being produced.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially on sexual morality. And it is coming, not from a few Socialists surviving from the Fabian Society, but from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last, with neither Popery nor Puritanism nor Socialism to hold them back. … The roots of the new heresy, God knows, are as deep as nature itself, whose power is the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eye and the pride of life. I say that the man who cannot see this cannot see the signs of the times; cannot see even the skysigns in the street that are the new sort of signs in heaven. The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow but much more in Manhattan.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The Rothschilds can start or prevent wars. Their word could make or break empires.
-- Chicago Evening American		 
David Rockefeller, President of Chase Manhattan Bank, briefed President Johnson today on his recent meeting with Premier Nikita Khrushchev of Russia.
-- Chicago Tribune		 
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
-- Lydia M. Child		 
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
-- Lydia M. Child		 
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
-- Chilon of Sparta		 
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors … had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.
-- Charles Chiniquy		 
The federal criminal code currently includes more than 3,000 offenses and hardly a congressional session goes by without an attempt to add new sections.
-- Stephen Chippendale		 
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
-- Shirley Chisholm		 
In the United States, Sovereignty resides in the people, who act through the organs established by the Constitution.
-- Chisholm v. Georgia		 
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.
-- Dr. G. Brock Chisolm		 
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.
-- Dr. G. Brock Chisolm		 
The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.
-- Joseph H. Choate		 
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
-- Rufus Choate		 
At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as "free education" is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
[I]n America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
-- Agatha Christie		 
Democracy is essentially coercive. The winner gets to use public authority to impose their policies on the losers.
-- John Chubb		 
All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
-- Francis Church		 
Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory -- victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes. The moral effect should be good … and it would spread a lively terror.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them are true.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The price of greatness is responsibility.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I like a man who grins when he fights.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.  But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: 'We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.'
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack.
-- Winston Churchill		 
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, Trial by Jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.
-- Winston Churchill		 
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
-- Winston Churchill		 
In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound.
-- Winston Churchill		 
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
-- Winston Churchill		 
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.
-- Winston Churchill		 
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill		 
The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charges known to the law, and particularly to deny him judgment by his peers for an indefinite period, is in the highest degree odious, and is the foundation of all totalitarian governments...Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation.
-- Winston Churchill		 
The public library is the most dangerous place in town.
-- John Ciardi		 
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
The more laws, the less justice.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the new wonderful good society which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, and more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born... is to live the life of a child for ever.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
By doubting we all come at truth.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
We are taxed in our bread and our wine, in our incomes and our investments, on our land and on our property not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of men, but for foreign nations, complaisant nations who will bow to us and accept our largesse and promise us to assist in the keeping of the peace - these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness or our treasury is bare, and surely it is becoming bare! We are taxed to maintain legions on their soil, in the name of law and order and the Pax Romana, a document which will fall into dust when it pleases our allies and our vassals. We keep them in precarious balance only with our gold. Is the heartblood of our nation worth these? Were they bound to us with ties of love, they would not ask our gold. They take our very flesh, and they hate and despise us. And who shall say we are worthy of more? ... When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Questionable)		 
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
-- Quintus Tullius Cicero		 
During war, the laws are silent.
-- Quintus Tullius Cicero		 
Gravity is still just a theory, too. Would you like to test it by placing your neck beneath a guillotine?
-- Ralph Cicerone		 
Our major mistakes have not been the result of democracy, but of the erosion of democracy made possible by the mass media’s manipulation of public opinion.
-- Robert Cirino		 
When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed...
-- Civil Servants' Year Book		 
Les femmes sont tout à fait compétentes pour assurer leur légitime défense, pourvu que la loi ne les transforme pas en criminelles si elles emploient des moyens efficaces à cette fin." "Women are quite able to see to their own defence, as long as the law does not transform them into criminals if they take effective measures to do so.
-- Claire Joly, Marie Latourelle, Maryse Martin, and Karen Selick		 
There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.
-- Frank Clark		 
[The program of American disarmament outlined in State Department Paper 7277] is the fixed, determined and approved policy of the government of the United States.
-- Joseph S. Clark		 
The last damn thing blacks should do is get into the vanguard of banning books. The next step is banning blacks...
-- Dr. Kenneth Clark		 
Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an inordinate degree of power in shaping the course of America in the dangerous postwar era. I could not help wondering and worrying whether we were faced with open enemies across the conference table and hidden enemies who sat with us in our most secret councils.
-- General Mark Clark		 
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
-- Ramsey Clark		 
But we’re not a democracy. It’s a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we’re a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.
-- Ramsey Clark		 
Those who do not believe in the ideology of the United States, shall not be allowed to live in the United States.
-- Tom Clark		 
From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.
-- Justice Tom C. Clark		 
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.
-- Justice Tom C. Clark		 
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
-- Arthur C. Clarke		 
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearence of magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke		 
It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances.
-- John Hessin Clarke		 
...there is no provision in the Charter itself that contemplates ending war. It is true the Charter provides for force to bring peace, but such use of force is itself war... The Charter is a war document not a peace document... Not only does the Charter Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting.
-- J. Reuben Clark, Jr.		 
He who wants peace must prepare for war.
-- Claudius		 
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
-- Henry Clay		 
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
-- Henry Clay		 
An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
-- Henry Clay		 
I would rather be right than President.
-- Henry Clay		 
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to denigration without the usual interval of civilization.
-- Georges Clemenceau		 
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
-- Georges Clemenceau		 
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free government.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.
-- Harlan Cleveland		 
It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
-- William Kingdon Clifford		 
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
-- William Kingdon Clifford		 
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
-- William Kingdon Clifford		 
There is no reason for anyone in this country -- anyone except a police officer or military person -- to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun. The only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns.
-- Bill Clinton (False)		 
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.
-- Bill Clinton (Questionable)		 
Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.
-- Bill Clinton		 
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.
-- Bill Clinton		 
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.
-- Bill Clinton		 
There's just no such thing as truth when it comes to him. He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election.
-- Bill Clinton		 
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.
-- Bill Clinton		 
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
-- Bill Clinton		 
No one wants to get this (Lewinsky) matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people,
-- Bill Clinton		 
It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
-- Bill Clinton		 
There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.
-- Bill Clinton		 
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...
-- Bill Clinton		 
You can't say you love your country and hate your government.
-- Bill Clinton		 
I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country, and that is the absolute truth.
-- Bill Clinton		 
A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.
-- Bill Clinton		 
It depends on what the meaning of the word is. If the– if he– if "is" means is and never has been, that is not– that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.... Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.
-- Bill Clinton		 
I am here because I want to redefine the meaning of citizenship in America... If you’re asked in school ‘What does it mean to be a good citizen?’ I want the answer to be, ‘Well, to be a good citizen, you have to obey the law, you’ve got to go to work or be in school, you’ve got to pay your taxes and, oh, yes, you have to serve in your community to help make it a better place.’
-- Bill Clinton		 
Q.- "If you had it to do over again, would you inhale?" A.- "Sure, if I could... I tried before!
-- Bill Clinton		 
You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.
-- Bill Clinton		 
African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.
-- Bill Clinton		 
The road to tyranny, we must remember, begins with the destruction of the truth.
-- Bill Clinton		 
The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.
-- Bill Clinton		 
You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.
-- Bill Clinton		 
The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of...older men who prey on underage women...There are consequences to decisions and...one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable.
-- Bill Clinton		 
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...
-- Bill Clinton		 
Nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones or requires all religious expression to be left behind at the schoolhouse door. … Government’s schools also may not discriminate against private religious expression during the school day.
-- Bill Clinton		 
The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too important to our history and our heritage for us to keep it out of our schools.
-- Bill Clinton		 
Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'
-- George Clinton		 
I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
-- Hillary Clinton		 
Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
-- Hillary Clinton		 
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
-- Hillary Clinton		 
God bless the America we are trying to create.
-- Hillary Clinton		 
We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
-- Hillary Clinton		 
This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.
-- James Clyburn		 
This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.
-- Frank I. Cobb		 
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.
-- Frank I. Cobb		 
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers ... and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he... should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists.
-- Frank I. Cobb		 
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
-- William Cobbett		 
A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
-- David B. Coblitz		 
The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the "high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and 'is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power.
-- Cockrum v. State		 
The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the high powers delegated directly to the citizen, and is excepted out of the general powers of government. A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power.
-- Cockrum v. State		 
Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.
-- Paulo Coelho		 
The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.
-- Paulo Coelho		 
I join others who throughout history have recognized that an individual in this country has a protected right, within the confines of the criminal law, to guard his or her home or place of business from unlawful intrusions. ... Surely nothing could be more fundamental to the “concept of ordered liberty” than the basic right of an individual, within the confines of the criminal law, to protect his home and family from unlawful and dangerous intrusions.
-- John Louis Coffey		 
It has been said that the greatest threat to our liberty is from well-meaning, and almost imperceptible encroachments upon our personal freedom.
-- John Louis Coffey		 
The right to privacy is one of the most cherished rights an American citizen has; the right to privacy sets America apart from totalitarian states in which the interests of the state prevail over individual rights. A fundamental part of our concept of ordered liberty is the right to protect one’s home and family against dangerous intrusions subject to the criminal law.
-- John Louis Coffey		 
Prohibition ended in 1933 because the nation’s most influential people, as well as the general public, acknowledged that it had failed. It had increased lawlessness and drinking and aggravated alcohol abuse.
-- Thomas M. Coffey		 
Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.
-- John Cogley		 
We must realize that our Party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races, that for centuries have been oppressed by the Whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party ... In America, we will aim for subtle victory. While enflaming the Negro minority against the Whites, we will instill in the Whites, a guilt complex for the exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions, and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negroes will be able to intermarry with the Whites, and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause.
-- Israel Cohen (Questionable)		 
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen		 
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
-- Morris R. Cohen		 
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.
-- Morris R. Cohen		 
We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with the issues and subjects we choose to deal with.
-- Richard M. Cohen		 
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
-- William S. Cohen		 
We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.
-- William S. Cohen		 
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
-- Jean Baptiste Colbert		 
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
-- Frank Moore Colby		 
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
-- William Colby		 
The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It’s possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.
-- William Colby		 
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.
-- Hartley Coleridge		 
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge		 
I have seen gross intolerance show in support of tolerance.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge		 
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge		 
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge		 
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge		 
Two hundred ten years ago, the people who drafted our Bill of Rights decided that banning books wasn't the way to handle disagreements. They thought the best thing was more speech. It is a pity that county commissioners in 2002 don't agree.
-- Matt Coles		 
The core issue here is not whether you agree or disagree with the commissioners about gay people. It is whether you think the answer to a disagreement is to yank the words of anyone who disagrees with them out of the library.
-- Matt Coles		 
While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny.
-- Rev. Nicholas Collin		 
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
-- Robin George Collingwood		 
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.
-- R. G. Collingwood		 
By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
-- Anthony Collins		 
The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.
-- Colorado Constitution		 
A governmental purpose to control or prevent certain activities, which may be constitutionally subject to state or municipal regulation under the police power, may not be achieved by means which sweep unnecessarily broadly and thereby invade the area of protected freedoms. Even though the governmental purpose may be legitimate and substantial, that purpose cannot be pursued by means that broadly stifle fundamental personal liberties when the end can be more narrowly achieved.
-- Colorado Supreme Court		 
The 1st Amendment embraces the individual's right to purchase and read whatever books she wishes to, without fear the government will take steps to discover which books she buys, reads, and intends to read.
-- Colorado Supreme Court		 
[The state] cannot disarm any class of persons or deprive them of the right guaranteed under section 13, article 2 of the Constitution, to bear arms in defense of home, person, and property. The guaranty thus extended is meaningless if any person is denied the right to possess arms for such protection....
-- Colorado Supreme Court		 
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
-- Charles Caleb Colton		 
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
-- Charles Caleb Colton		 
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
-- Charles Caleb Colton		 
Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
-- Charles Caleb Colton		 
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
-- Charles Caleb Colton		 
[W]e are living in a sick Society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbors but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them.
-- William Comer		 
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion... In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Lawyers are being graduated from our law schools by the thousands who have little knowledge of the Constitution. When  organizations seek a lawyer to instruct them on the Constitution, they find it nearly impossible to secure one competent.
-- Committee on American Citizenship		 
We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists.
-- Communist Party Education Workers Congress		 
Communist Rules for Revolution...
-- Communist Rules for Revolution (Questionable)		 
[When] Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology, why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
-- Auguste Comte		 
Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. ... Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions.
-- Auguste Comte		 
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
-- James Bryant Conant		 
Eight days after taking over the reins of his country, a beloved leader urged everyone to turn in their arms - “There is no longer an enemy,” he said. A slogan, “Arms—What For?” appeared throughout the nation. Thirty days later he ordered his militia to turn in their arms. Promised elections are cancelled, the loved leader becomes a tyrant and his people lose all rights, including freedom of speech and press, becoming a totalitarian state for the next 35 years. For those Americans currently willing to agree to have some of their rights curtailed for temporary security, I’d urge them to look south -- to Cuba.
-- Yvonne M. Conde		 
Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn’t respect them.
-- Pat Condell		 
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
-- Confucius		 
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
-- Confucius		 
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
-- Confucius		 
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
-- Confucius		 
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand.
-- Confucius		 
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
-- Confucius		 
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-- Confucius		 
The superior man understands what is right. The inferior man understands what is popular.
-- Confucius		 
By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart.
-- Confucius		 
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
-- Confucius		 
No mask like open truth to cover lies,\\As to go naked is the best disguise.
-- William Congreve		 
Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state.
-- Connecticut Constitution		 
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
-- Joseph Conrad		 
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.
-- Joseph Conrad		 
Thus arbitrary power will have divided men of superior intelligence into two groups: the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt...
-- Benjamin Constant		 
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being...
-- Benjamin Constant		 
First ask yourselves, Gentlemen, what an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a citizen of the United States of America understand today by the word 'liberty'. For each of them it is the right to be subjected only to the laws, and to be neither arrested, detained, put to death nor maltreated in any way by the arbitrary will of one or more individuals. It is the right of everyone to express their opinion, choose a profession and practice it, to dispose of property, and even to abuse it; to come and go without permission, and without having to account for their motives or undertakings. It is everyone's right to associate with other individuals, either to discuss their interests, or to profess the religion which they or their associates prefer, or even simply to occupy their days or hours in a way which is more compatible with their inclinations or whims. Finally, it is everyone's right to exercise some influence on the administration of the government, either by electing all or particular officials, or through representations, petitions, demands to which the authorities are more or less compelled to pay heed. Now compare this liberty with that of the ancients. The latter consisted in exercising collectively, but directly, several parts of the complete sovereignty; in deliberating, in the public square, over war and peace; in forming alliances with foreign governments; in voting laws, in pronouncing judgments; in examining the accounts, the acts, the stewardship of the magistrates; in calling them to appear in front of the assembled people, in accusing, condemning or absolving them. But if this was what the ancients called liberty, they admitted as compatible with this collective freedom the complete subjection of the individual to the authority of the community.
-- Benjamin Constant		 
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.
-- Constitution for the United States		 
We the People of the united States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
-- Constitution for the USA		 
In all criminal cases whatsoever, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts.
-- Indiana Constitution		 
Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms; and this right shall never be questioned.
-- Maine Constitution		 
The people have a right to keep and bear arms for the common defense. And as, in times of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the Legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the Civil authority, and be governed by it.
-- Massachusetts Constitution		 
Every person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state.
-- Michigan Constitution		 
The right of any person to keep or bear arms in defense of his own home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but nothing herein contained shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons.
-- Montana Constitution		 
Every citizen has the right to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes.
-- Nevada Constitution		 
All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.
-- New Hampshire Constitution		 
The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
-- New Hampshire Constitution		 
All lawful authority comes from God to the people.
-- Constitution of the Irish Free State		 
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury... nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any Criminal Case to be a witness against himself, not be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
-- Constitution of the United States		 
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
-- Constitution of UNESCO		 
That the people have a right to freedom of speech, and of writing, and publishing their sentiments; therefore, the freedom of the press ought not to be restrained.
-- Pennsylvania Constitution		 
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...
-- U. S. Constitution		 
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
-- U.S. Constitution		 
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
-- Alistair Cooke		 
As for the rage to believe that we have found the secret of liberty in general permissiveness from the cradle on, this seems to me a disastrous sentimentality, which, whatever liberties it sets loose, loosens also the cement that alone can bind society into a stable compound -- a code of obeyed taboos. I can only recall the saying of a wise Frenchman that `liberty is the luxury of self-discipline.' Historically, those peoples that did not discipline themselves had discipline thrust on them from the outside. That is why the normal cycle in the life and death of great nations has been first a powerful tyranny broken by revolt, the enjoyment of liberty, the abuse of liberty -- and back to tyranny again. As I see it, in this country -- a land of the most persistent idealism and the blandest cynicism -- the race is on between its decadence and its vitality.
-- Alistair Cooke		 
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.
-- Alistair Cooke		 
Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force.
-- Samuel Cooke		 
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
-- Charles Horton Cooley		 
We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty.
-- Marvin Cooley		 
I will no longer pay for the destruction of my country, family, and self. Damn tyranny! Damn the Federal Reserve liars and thieves! Damn all pettifogging, oath-breaking US attorneys and judges.… I will see you all in Hell and shed my blood before I will be robbed of one more dollar to finance a national policy of treason, plunder, and corruption
-- Marvin Cooley		 
The right is general. It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent. The militia, as has been explained elsewhere, consists of those persons who, under the law, are liable to the performance of military duty, and are officered and enrolled for service when called upon. . . . [I]f the right were limited to those enrolled, the purpose of the guarantee might be defeated altogether by the action or the neglect to act of the government it was meant to hold in check. The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms, and they need no permission or regulation of law for that purpose.
-- Thomas Cooley		 
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. The wise and correct course to follow in taxation is not to destroy those who have already secured success, but to create conditions under which everyone will have a better chance to be successful.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.... If the foundation is firm, the superstructure will stand.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper		 
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a free man. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
-- James Fenimore Cooper		 
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals.
-- James Fenimore Cooper		 
Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.
-- James Fenimore Cooper		 
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly-prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.
-- James Fenimore Cooper		 
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.
-- James Fenimore Cooper		 
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
-- James Fenimore Cooper		 
Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals.
-- James Fenimore Cooper		 
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
-- Col. Jeff Cooper		 
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
-- Jeff Cooper		 
The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.
-- Thomas Cooper		 
Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
-- Thomas Cooper		 
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-- Bill Copeland		 
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, `with both eyes open'.
-- Copernicus		 
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
-- Alan Corenk		 
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
-- II Corinthians		 
Censorship is contagious, and experience with this culture of regulation teaches us that regulatory enthusiasts herald each new medium of communications as another opportunity to spread the disease.
-- Robert Corn-Revere		 
Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.
-- Pierre Corneille		 
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby		 
He [a U.S. Senator] knows he's got to buy time on my radio station, so he's going to lend me an ear. We're keeping them alive back home and that's why the newspaper and radio and TV people are more effective lobbyists.
-- Joseph Costello		 
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
-- John Cotton		 
In the Jim Crow South, for example, government failed and indeed refused to protect blacks from extra-legal violence. Given our history, it's stunning we fail to question those who would force upon us a total reliance on the state for defense.
-- Robert J. Cottrol		 
In education markets, like the Asian tutoring industry, top teachers are superstars who get to design curricula for thousands or even millions of students and train scores or hundreds of other teachers to use their effective methods. Quality providers expand and are emulated by competitors, and there is a powerful incentive for meaningful innovation. ... One teacher in Korea’s private tutoring sector made $2 million last year because his web-based employer has profit sharing and he’s brilliant at what he does, so he gets tons of students. That’s what should have happened to [Jaime] Escalante. That’s the sort of success that should greet excellence in education at all levels. It doesn’t because we don’t have a market.
-- Andrew J. Coulson		 
[A] possible further difficulty is cited, namely, that arising from the Constitutional provision that only Congress may declare war. This argument is countered with the contention that a treaty will override this barrier, let alone the fact that our participation in such police action as might be recommended by the international security organization need not necessarily be construed as war.
-- Council on Foreign Relations		 
The sovereignty fetish is still so strong in the public mind, that there would appear to be little chance of winning popular assent to American membership in anything approaching a super-state organization. Much will depend on the kind of approach which is used in further popular education.
-- Council on Foreign Relations		 
Some suggested over the weekend that it's wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.
-- Katie Couric		 
We consistently have adhered to the principle that the will of the people is the paramount consideration. Our goal today…[is] to reach the result that reflects the will of the voters…. The laws are intended to facilitate and safeguard the right of each voter to express his or her will in the context of our representative democracy. Technical statutory requirements must not be exalted over the substance of this right.
-- Florida Supreme Court		 
The nearer the power to enact laws and control public servants lies with the great body of the people, the more nearly does a government take unto itself the form of a republic -- not in name alone, but in fact.
-- Oregon Supreme Court		 
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
-- Georges Courteline		 
History is a vast early warning system.
-- Norman Cousins		 
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.
-- Norman Cousins		 
I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.
-- Norman Cousins		 
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside of ourselves will affect us.
-- Steven R. Covey		 
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
-- Steven R. Covey		 
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
-- Richard Cowan		 
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
-- Noël Coward		 
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
-- Noel Coward		 
I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known.
-- Noel Coward		 
The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
-- Abraham Cowley		 
Life is an incurable disease.
-- Abraham Cowley		 
Then liberty, like day,\\ Breaks on the soul,\\ and by a flash from Heaven\\ Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
-- William Cowper		 
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought\\ Of freedom, in that hope itself possess\\ All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,\\ The scorn of danger, and united hearts,\\ The surest presage of the good they seek.
-- William Cowper		 
Absence of occupation is not rest,\\A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
-- William Cowper		 
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower\\ Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;\\ And we are weeds without it.
-- William Cowper		 
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show\\ That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
-- William Cowper		 
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
-- William Cowper		 
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
-- William Cowper		 
To follow foolish precedents, and wink\\ With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
-- William Cowper		 
Freedom has a thousand charms to show,\\ That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
-- William Cowper		 
It is always the task of the intellectual to “think otherwise.” This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.
-- Harvey Cox		 
The holier-than-thou activists who blame the population for not spending more money on their personal crusades are worse than aggravating. They encourage the repudiation of personal responsibility by spreading the lie that support of a government program fulfills individual moral duty.
-- Patrick Cox		 
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.
-- Stephen Cox		 
The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army,  must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
-- Tench Coxe		 
The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unnecessary. They will form a powerful check upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them
-- Tench Coxe		 
As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious. For by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices, and they will have none of the peculiar qualities and vices of those men who possess power merely because their father held it before them.
-- Tench Coxe		 
Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
-- Tench Coxe		 
Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
-- Tench Coxe		 
Democracy needs more free speech for even the speech of foolish people is valuable if it serves to guarantee the right of the wise to talk.
-- David Cushman Coyle		 
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state -- what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations -- what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force.
-- Edward H. Crane		 
The Great Depression was not caused by laissez faire but by the actions of well-intended politicians and bureaucrats. The Federal Reserve System, after all, was not created in response to the Great Depression, but in 1913. Soon thereafter it began experimenting with its awesome powers, expanding the money supply during the roaring ‘20s, propping up the pound sterling in London, extending credit so Europeans could buy American agricultural products. All the while, Congress was becoming more and more protectionist. When the Fed reversed policies in 1929 and actually shrunk the money supply by a third over the next three years and Congress culminated its protectionist tendencies with the Smoot-Hawley tariff, the collapse was underway. The fact that Hoover then raised taxes and Roosevelt kept wages artificially high guaranteed the massive unemployment that marked the 1930s. Government caused and exacerbated the Great Depression.
-- Edward H. Crane		 
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.
-- Edward H. Crane		 
In the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give the facts to their readers.
-- Nelson Antrim Crawford		 
The impact of Zenger [the trial of John Zenger] on the American colonies was dramatic. Every jurisdiction which confronted the issue of the jury’s right to decide the law as well as the facts reached the same conclusion: American juries had the right to decide the law.
-- M. Kristine Creagan		 
Jury nullification is a doctrine based on the concept that “jurors have the inherent right to set aside the instructions of the judge and to reach a verdict of acquittal based upon their own consciences, and the defendant has the right to be so instructed.” Though jury nullification may seem like a shocking proposal today, it is by no means a new idea. In fact, jury nullification was first espoused nearly three and one half centuries ago.
-- M. Kristine Creagan		 
Things in law tend to be black and white. But we all know that some people are a little bit guilty, while other people are guilty as hell.
-- Donald R. Cressey		 
I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.
-- Dr. Michael Crichton		 
Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
-- Michael Crichton		 
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother’s morals – only of his rights.
-- Judith Crist		 
Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.
-- Benedetto Croce		 
I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead.
-- Davy Crockett		 
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
-- Davy Crockett		 
We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money.
-- Davy Crockett		 
There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.
-- Davy Crockett		 
I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.
-- Davy Crockett		 
The First Amendment was never intended to insulate our public institutions from any mention of God, the Bible or religion. When such insulation occurs, another religion, such as secular humanism, is effectively established.
-- Crockett v. Sorenson		 
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
-- Oliver Cromwell		 
News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.
-- Walter Cronkite		 
It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.
-- Walter Cronkite		 
When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to “get their man.” Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome “technicalities” that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.
-- Donna Woolfolk Cross		 
It's important to understand that the idea of political correctness, from its inception, was designed as a political weapon to silence voices of dissent ... today’s social media outrage can be tomorrow’s laws.
-- Steven Crowder		 
This is why political correctness, or Cultural Marxism,… lends itself so fashionably to easy labels. Transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, bigoted, Uncle Tom, white privilege, mainsplaining. All of these are slapped on people with "politically incorrect" opinions in an attempt to silence you... Hate speech is inextricably tied to political correctness, or Cultural Marxism, and that creates intellectual conformity -- or intellectual authoritarianism. And that’s where you start to see things like “safe spaces” or “trigger warnings” or speakers banned from campus, or people with unpopular opinions banned from social media.
-- Steven Crowder		 
This is why political correctness, or Cultural Marxism,… lends itself so fashionably to easy labels. Transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, bigoted, Uncle Tom, white privilege, mainsplaining. All of these are slapped on people with "politically incorrect" opinions in an attempt to silence you...
-- Steven Crowder		 
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.
-- Ellwood P. Cubberley		 
There is a de facto “secret government” operating nationally and internationally and involved in the highest circles of the U.S. government, exercising an impact over domestic policies and economics ranging between extreme influence to, at times, outright control. This extreme influence to outright control naturally includes the Presidency. The de facto “secret government,” much of whose intellectual—and financial—muscle are to be found in the New York office of the CFR, the great tax-free foundations, and certain international firms and corporations.
-- Mike Culbert		 
We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish.
-- John Culkin		 
To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
-- e. e. cummings		 
Only the rare taxpayer would be likely to know that he could refuse to produce his records to IRS agents... Who would believe the ironic truth that the cooperative taxpayer fares much worse than the individual who relies upon his constitutional rights.
-- Judge Walter Joseph Cummings Jr.		 
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
-- John Philpot Curran		 
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
-- John Philpot Curran		 
A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.
-- Rex Curry		 
There can be no crime, there can be no misdemeanor without a law written or unwritten, express or implied.
-- Benjamin Curtis		 
A greater principle is at stake than the fate of any particular president
-- Benjamin Curtis		 
Treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors are high crimes, other high crimes and misdemeanors must be akin to treason and bribery.
-- Benjamin Curtis		 
My first position is that when Congress speaks of treason, bribery, and other crimes and misdemeanors, it refers to and includes only high criminal offenses against the United States made so by some law of the United States existing when the acts complained of were done. And I say that this is plainly to be inferred from each and every one of the provisions of the constitution on the subject of impeachment.
-- Benjamin Curtis		 
The big thieves hang the little ones.
-- Czech Proverb		 
Depressed? Of course we're all depressed. We've been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant. The further society "progresses," the grander the scale of imbalance. Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we'll soon find government mandating Prozac in our water to prevent mental caries.
-- M. Robin D'Antan		 
Collectivist ethical principle: man is not an end to himself, but is only a tool to serve the ends of others. Whether those 'others' are a dictator's gang, the nation, society, the race, (the) god(s), the majority, the community, the tribe, etc., is irrelevant -- the point is that man in principle must be sacrificed to others.
-- Mark Da Cunha		 
In principle, there are only two fundamental political viewpoints. That is, two contradictory ends of the 'political spectrum.' Those two principles are freedom and slavery.
-- Mark Da Cunha		 
Collectivism, unlike individualism, holds the group as the primary, and the standard of moral value.
-- Mark Da Cunha		 
Positive laws are tyrannical. One's individual rights -- whether they be life, liberty, or property -- must be sacrificed by the state in order to fulfill the positive rights of another. For example, if housing is considered a "right," then the state will have to confiscate wealth (property) from those who have provided shelter for themselves in order to house those who have not. ... True justice is realized when our lives, and property are secure, and we are free to express our thoughts without fear of retribution. Just laws are negative in nature; they exist to thwart the violation of our natural rights. Government ought to be the collective organization -- that is, the extension -- of the individual's right of self-defense, and its purpose to protect our lives, liberties, and property.
-- Mark Da Vee		 
The desire to know is natural to good men.
-- Leonardo da Vinci		 
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
-- Leonardo da Vinci		 
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci		 
Anyone who argues by referring to authority is not using his mind but rather his memory.
-- Leonardo da Vinci		 
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci		 
I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?
-- Leonardo da Vinci		 
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
-- Edward Dahlberg		 
Today, The Daily Telegraph starts its 'A Free Country' campaign. Week by week, and in major individual investigations, we shall examine how freedom is being taken away, whether by Westminster or Whitehall or Brussels or any other authority. We shall try to annoy the control freaks, whether they are Right, Left or Centre, and we shall welcome allies for freedom from all quarters. The Conservative leadership contestants hardly breathe a word about freedom. The Labour Government's Queen's Speech is a shopping list of attacks on our liberties. There's plenty to do. Libertad o muerte!
-- Daily Telegraph		 
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
-- Dalai Lama		 
The police are not here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder.
-- Mayor Richard Daley		 
...it was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World-Money powers triggered by the planned sudden shortage of call money in the New York Market.
-- Curtis Dall		 
...Most of his thoughts, his political 'ammunition,'...were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the CFR-One World Money group. Brilliantly... he exploded that prepared 'ammunition' in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people--and thus paid off and retained his internationalist political support.
-- Curtis Dall		 
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. 
-- Theodore Dalrymple		 
There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
-- William Damon		 
Our experience has shown us that in the excitement of great popular elections, deciding the policy of the country, and its vast patronage, frauds will be committed, if a chance is given for them. If these frauds are allowed, the result is not only that the popular will may be defeated, and the result falsified, but that the worst side will prevail. The side which has the greater number of dishonest men will poll the most votes. The war cry, "Vote early and vote often!" and the familiar problem, "how to cast the greatest number of votes with the smallest number of voters", indicate the direction in which the dangers lie.
-- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.		 
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
-- Frank Dane		 
I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. ... I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. ... We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.
-- John C. Danforth		 
It is up to you to decide whether or not you’re ready to be free, really free. This pertains to your relationship as well as your activities in the world. You are limitless, if you choose that! Your freedom comes from letting go. Freedom means empowerment to be, do, go, feel, whatever your heart tells you. Only you have kept yourself from having this freedom out of some misunderstanding of what your responsibilities really are. Your responsibilities are to your Self. Serve that truly, fully, and you serve All.
-- Alma Daniel		 
Every private citizen has a public responsibility.
-- Myra Janco Daniels		 
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
-- Danish Proverb		 
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
-- Dante		 
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all, she will have nothing. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private school . . . At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
There is no such thing as justice -- in or out of court.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. The modern world is the child of doubt and inquiry, as the ancient world was the child of fear and faith.
-- Clarence S. Darrow		 
To suppose that the eye [...] could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.
-- Charles Darwin		 
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
-- Charles Darwin		 
The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.
-- Charles Darwin		 
The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal.
-- Charles Darwin		 
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
-- Charles Darwin		 
Government schools can't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic -- why should we trust them to teach morality, respect, and character? If public education does for ethics what it's done for learning, we'll end up with a generation of immoral, disrespectful, and characterless students.
-- Steve Dasbach		 
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
-- Ram Dass		 
When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
-- James Dale Davidson		 
The politicians don’t just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.
-- James Dale Davidson		 
So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.
-- William Richardson Davie		 
The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority.
-- Justice David Davis		 
The Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it ... This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
-- Elmer Davis		 
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error; that in the competition of the marketplace of ideas, the sounder ideas will in the long run win out.
-- Elmer Davis		 
The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.
-- Elmer Davis		 
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
-- Jefferson Davis		 
It is ironic that our government, which has been relentlessly critical of the messages that popular culture imparts to our youth, would seek to silence an artist who uses the medium of hip hop to preach a message of self respect and self reliance to young women and girls.
-- Lisa E. Davis		 
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
-- Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis		 
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
-- Richard Dawkins		 
You know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal.
-- John De Armond		 
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
-- Honoré de Balzac		 
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
-- Honore de Balzac		 
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
-- Honore de Balzac		 
I claim for the nation an education that depends only on the State, because children of the State must be raised by members of the State.
-- Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais		 
It is the part of wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.
-- Miguel de Cervantes		 
Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
-- Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort		 
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
-- Luc de Clapiers		 
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license,” and they will define freedom out of existence.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre		 
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... against the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre		 
...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre		 
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
-- Charles de Gaulle		 
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
-- Charles De Gaulle		 
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
-- Charles De Gaulle		 
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
-- Charles de Gaulle		 
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
-- Remy De Gourmont		 
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty -- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
-- Remy de Gourmont		 
A large number of people, certainly the majority of the political looter class, think the best way to deal with the rapidly deepening economic crisis is via 'stimulus packages' with money plucked off the magic money tree... which is to say, by trying to re-inflate the credit bubble that actually caused the crisis. This is a bit like treating alcoholics by urging them to buy more whiskey.
-- Perry de Havilland		 
I have often lamented that with the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the forces of liberalism did not spend nearly enough time ruthlessly driving intellectual stakes through the hearts of all those who supported the 'Evil Empire' or preached appeasement or claimed that the Soviet system was 'just another way of living' rather than a mass murderous tyranny.
-- Perry de Havilland		 
The Radical Centre seem to have the same obsession with control that the fascists and communists had, but unlike them, it is control for control's sake rather than in the service of some clear ideology ... They do not seek the triumph of Volk or the dictatorship of the proletariat, they just seek to replace all social interactions with politically mediated interactions. They seek to regulate everything via a total state that ... just wants a world in which nothing whatsoever is private, everything is political. Their symbol is not the Hammer and Sickle or the Swastika, it is the CCTV camera.
-- Perry de Havilland		 
... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.
-- Anthony de Jasay		 
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.
-- Anthony de Jasay		 
Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.
-- Anthony de Jasay		 
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.
-- Anthony de Jasay		 
Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.
-- Anthony de Jasay		 
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.
-- Anthony de Jasay		 
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel		 
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel		 
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel		 
The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel		 
However, there is satisfaction in examining what they get out of all this torment, what advantage they derive from all the trouble of their wretched existence. Actually the people never blame the tyrant for the evils they suffer, but they do place responsibility on those who influence him; peoples, nations, all compete with one another, even the peasants, even the tillers of the soil, in mentioning the names of the favorites, in analyzing their vices, and heaping upon them a thousand insults, a thousand obscenities, a thousand maledictions. All their prayers, all their vows are directed against these persons; they hold them accountable for all their misfortunes, their pestilences, their famines; and if at times they show them outward respect, at those very moments they are fuming in their hearts and hold them in greater horror than wild beasts. This is the glory and honor heaped upon influential favorites for their services by people who, if they could tear apart their living bodies, would still clamor for more, only half satiated by the agony they might behold. For even when the favorites are dead those who live after are never too lazy to blacken the names of these people-eaters with the ink of a thousand pens, tear their reputations into bits in a thousand books, and drag, so to speak, their bones past posterity, forever punishing them after their death for their wicked lives.
-- Estienne de la Boétie		 
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.
-- Étienne de la Boétie		 
It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.
-- Etienne de la Boétie		 
A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
-- Jean de la Bruyere		 
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
-- Jean de la Bruyere		 
O liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name! [Fr., O liberte! que de crimes on commet dans ton nom!]
-- Madame Jeanne Marie Phlipon de La Platiere Roland		 
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld		 
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld		 
We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld		 
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld		 
Love of justice in the generality of men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld		 
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld		 
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld		 
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld		 
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld		 
Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine		 
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
-- Alphonse de Lamartine		 
At twenty every one is republican.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine		 
There is in human affairs one order which is best. That order is not always the one which exists; but it is the order which should exist for the greatest good of humanity. God knows, it and will it: man's duty it is to discover and establish it.
-- Emile Louis Victor de Laveleye		 
No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.
-- Salvador de Madariaga		 
He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.
-- Salvador De Madariaga		 
He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.
-- Salvador de Madariaga		 
Every nation gets the government it deserves.
-- Joseph de Maistre		 
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
-- Michel De Montaigne		 
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration -- nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
-- Michel De Montaigne		 
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
-- Michel de Montaigne		 
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
-- Michel de Montaigne		 
Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.
-- Michel de Montaigne		 
Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.
-- Michel De Montaigne		 
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
-- Michel de Montaigne		 
A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
-- Michel De Montaigne		 
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
-- Michel De Montaigne		 
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
-- Michel de Montaigne		 
I quote others only the better to express myself.
-- Michel De Montaigne		 
There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
-- Michel de Montaigne		 
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
-- Michel de Montaigne		 
If falsehood like truth had only one face, we would be in better shape. For we would take as certain the opposite of what the liar said. But the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and a limitless field.
-- Michel de Montaigne		 
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
-- Michel De Montaigne		 
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether things are so.
-- Michel De Montaigne		 
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
-- Michel de Montaigne		 
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
-- Charles de Montesquieu		 
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
-- Charles de Montesquieu		 
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. [Fr., Les republiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvrete.]
-- Charles de Montesquieu		 
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
-- Charles de Montesquieu		 
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
-- Charles de Montesquieu		 
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
-- Charles de Montesquieu		 
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
-- Louis Charles Alfred de Musset		 
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.
-- Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre		 
The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance.
-- Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre		 
The evil of democracy is not the triumph of quantity, but the triumph of bad quality.
-- Guido De Ruggiero		 
I know of but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery		 
People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry		 
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery		 
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
-- Charles-Louis De Secondat		 
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
-- Charles-Louis de Secondat		 
Useless laws weaken necessary laws.
-- Charles-Louis de Secondat		 
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
-- Charles-Louis de Secondat		 
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
-- Charles-Louis de Secondat		 
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
-- Charles-Louis De Secondat		 
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.
-- Charles-Louis De Secondat		 
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
-- Charles-Louis de Secondat		 
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.
-- Vittorio de Sica		 
It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger.
-- Ithiel De Sola Pool		 
It [government] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville		 
I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville		 
A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville		 
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville		 
Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?
-- Alexis de Tocqueville		 


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