“That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, and a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty, and keep government free. The people ought, therefore, to pay particular attention to these…

“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them – and…

“It’s a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man” David Harris, (1946-) American journalist, author. Source: documentary ‘Carry It On’ (1970). Source Reference

“Don’t forget that pure democracy is a form of collectivism – it readily sacrifices individual rights to majority wishes. Since it involves no constitutional bill of rights, or at least, no working and effective one, the majority-of-the-moment can and does…

“Over the 20th century, the federal government has assumed a vast and unprecedented set of powers. Not only has the exercise of those powers upset the balance between federal and state governments; run roughshod over individuals, families, and firms; and…

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General. Source: first inaugural address, 20 January 1953.
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“True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.” Felix Emmanuel Schelling,…

“Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.” Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677). Source Reference

“The businessman’s tool is values; the bureucrat’s  tool is fear.” Ayn Rand  [Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum], (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. Source Reference

“Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in behaving themselves.” Thomas Szasz, (1920- ) Author, Professor. Source: The Second Sin, 1973
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“Communism, avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God. This I could never accept,… I strongly disagreed with Communism’s ethical relativism… there are no fixed, immutable principles; consequently, almost anything—force, violence, murder, lying—is a justifiable means to the ‘millennial’…

“If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Naziism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.” Paul Johnson, American historian. Source Reference Paul Johnson…