“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) Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin. Source: cited in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955. Source Reference Baruch Spinoza Quote

“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 Ayn Rand Quote

“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 Bede Johnson, (1928-) English journalist, popular historian,…

“It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.” Paul Harvey, [Paul Harvey Aurandt] (1918-2009) American radio broadcaster. Source: The…

“The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren’t worth a dime.” Richard A. Viguerie, (1933- ) American writer. Source Reference Richard A. Viguerie Quote

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give…

“It takes a very long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.” Alice Koller, Source: The Stations of Solitute (1990). Source Reference Alice Koller Quote

“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect…

“The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may…

“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, (1913-1960) French Algerian author. Source Reference Albert Camus Quote

“One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.” Charles Austin Beard, (1874-1948) Professor…