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In human affairs, all that endures is what men think.
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The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
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Whether it does any good or not, a law enforced must hurt someone.
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An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.
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An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.
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The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
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The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
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The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.
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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
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As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
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The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.
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What the past shows, by overwhelming evidence, is that the imponderables outweigh every material article in the scales of human endeavor.
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Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.
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When the word leader, or leadership, returns to current use, it connotes a relapse into barbarism. For a civilized people, it is the most ominous word in any language.
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Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?
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Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.
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The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Isabel Paterson
Born:
January 22, 1886
Died:
January 10, 1961
(aged 74)
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