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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which read more
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.
God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing read more
...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing for freedom, such a paralysis of the spirit, as disease. I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
