“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” Charles-Louis De Secondat, (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu. Source: The Spirit of the Laws, 1748. Source Reference Charles-Louis De Secondat Quote

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn, (1918-2008) Russian novelist, Soviet dissident, imprisoned for 8 years for critizing Stalin in a personal letter, Nobel Prize…

“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…

“Collectivism, unlike individualism, holds the group as the primary, and the standard of moral value.” Mark Da Cunha, Publisher of Capitalism magazine. Source Reference Mark Da Cunha Quote

“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong… . In fact…

“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 David Harris Quote

“The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one’s own opinions are infallibly correct.” John Fiske, (1842-1901) American philosopher, historian. Source Reference John Fiske Quote

“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…

“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) 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’…