“It is precisely this clinging to victimhood as a means of demonstrating one’s virtue and advancing one’s well-being that has led us into a society in which welfare and quotas are ‘civil rights,’ government handouts are ‘ entitlements,’ and payment to girls…

“There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778) Political philosopher, educationist and essayist. Source: Emile, 1762. Source Reference Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote

“When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.” Max Lerner, (1902-1992) Russian-born American journalist and educator. Source: Actions and Passions, 1949. Source Reference Max Lerner Quote

“Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.” John Locke, (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. Source Reference John Locke Quote

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source Reference Thomas Jefferson Quote

“All Men have a Right to remain in a State of Nature as long as they please: And in case of intolerable Oppression, civil or religious, to leave the Society they belong to and enter into another. When Men enter…

“…Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed…so long as our manners and principles remain…

“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.  The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” Harper Lee, (1926-2016) American author, 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist for ‘To Kill A…

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a…

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity…

“It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.” Friedrich August von Hayek, (1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic…

“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” Henry Brooks Adams, (1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and son of US Secretary of State, Charles…