It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. - Thomas Paine
Cerebral Wisdom’s Tweets
Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials. - Will Rogers
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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. - Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny. - Winston Churchill
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. - Aristotle
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? - Thomas Jefferson
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan
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Men can be highly civilized only while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them. - George Orwell
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Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently. - H. L. Mencken
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If a society is to remain free, its government must be controlled. - Ayn Rand
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Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop. - H. L. Mencken
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To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. - Alexander Hamilton
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Virtue, as well as evil, lies in our power. - Aristotle
Attempts to create heaven on earth invariably produce hell. - Karl Popper
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, that all men would be tyrants if they could. - Daniel Defoe
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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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 price of greatness is responsibility. - Winston Churchill
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There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money. - Margaret Thatcher
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Class warfare is crass warfare. - Will Spencer
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If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill
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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. - Confucius
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley
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The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan
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Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan
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Before the tribunal of nature a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence... - William Graham Sumner
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. - Jonathan Swift
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Lying is the essence of modern liberalism and it begins with lying to the self. - Roger Simon
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. - Thomas Carlyle
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast. - William Tecumseh Sherman
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher
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The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. - British Sea Lord John Fisher
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There is no such dichotomy as "human rights" versus "property rights." No human rights can exist without property rights. - Ayn Rand
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Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them. - Friedrich Hayek
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Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. - Ronald Reagan
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To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form. - Roy Innis
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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. - Benjamin Tucker
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America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. - Ayn Rand
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