The Quote of the Day

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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Thomas Jefferson

 

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A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

 

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

 

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The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

Thomas Jefferson

 

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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

Thomas Jefferson

 

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

 

[Stu Farish]

 

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“In the 20th century, six times more people were killed by their own governments than were killed in wars."
James Perloff

DEATH BY GOVERNMENT By R.J. Rummel New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994.

 

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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

 

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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

 

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That which hurts, also instructs.

Benjamin Franklin

 

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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

John Locke

 

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Where there is no law there is no freedom.

John Locke

 

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

 

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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Paine

 

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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Thomas Paine

 

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A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.

Thomas Paine

 

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“We want peace for the Israelis. We want peace for the Palestinians,” bin Salman said. “We want them to coexist peacefully in the region, and we will do our best to reach a deal.”
bin Salman

 

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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

Abraham Lincoln