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Clergyman, Author

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.

America - God - Government - Liberty - Man - Problem - Security - Solution

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

Age - Children - Conditioning - Countries - Crime - Difficulty - Doubt - Equality - Imagination - Impossible - Individual - Liberty - Man - Original - Slavery - State - Violence

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historian, Novelist

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

Economy - Eternity - Growing - Mythology - Nonsense - Progression - Stability

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Benito Mussolini

Former Prime Minister of Italy

The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

Actions - Countries - Economy - Education - Fascism - Feelings - Meaning - Politics - State

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Ludwig von Mises

Composer, Economist, Philosopher

Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.

Activity - Choice - Citizenry - Democracy - Economy - Effort - Machine - Majority - Oppression - Resistance - State - Thinking - Violence

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Economy - Oneself - Work

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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe a liar or charlatan could have had the effect on mankind that he has had for 2000 years. We could ask, would even the greatest of liars carry his lie through the crucifixion, when a simple confession would have saved him? ... Did he allow us the choice... to believe in his teaching but reject his statements about his own identity?

Belief - Choice - Effectiveness - Lie - Reject

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Honore de Balzac

Artist, Novelist, Novelist

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

End - Judging - Law - Man - Meaning - Tasks

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Hippocrates

Writer, Scientist, Greek physician

Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

Age - Constitution - Eating - Effectiveness - Enough - Exercise - Fall - Giving - Home - Human - Individual - Knowledge - Man - Seasons - Sickness

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Thomas Aquinas

Friar, Philosopher, Priest, Theologian

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

Accounting - Anger - Effectiveness - Man

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Montesquieu

Judge, Philosopher

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Law - Liberty - Permission - Right

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Harry S. Truman

33rd U.S. President

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Economy - Injustice - War

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Effectiveness - Morals

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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Theologian

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

Actions - Animals - Effectiveness - Machine - Production

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Miguel de Cervantes

Writer

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

Illness - Loss - Mastering - Wellness

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Amartya Sen

Economist, Philosopher

We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. Its also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.

Economy - Opportunity - Poverty - World

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Jorge Luis Borges

Philosopher, Poet, Writer, Critic

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Actions - Effectiveness

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Effectiveness - Obscurity

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill.

Absurd - Growing - Illness - Madness - Repetition - Struggle - Tasks - World

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