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Quotes:

"The problem is not as much lobbyists, or even corrupt politicians, or ear marks, or special interest. They would all go away if we limited the power of the Federal Government. There is very little favor gained by others when we adhere to the constitution." - John Jay Myers.

"But I don't want comfort. I want God. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin." - John Savage, Brave New World.

"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." - John Savage, Brave New World.

"To give an organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means." - Aldus Huxley.

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - Latin proverb (tr. Who is to guard the guards?).

"a renewal of faith in common human nature, in its potentialities in general, and in its power in particular to respond to reason and truth, is a surer bulwark against totalitarianism than a demonstration of material success or a devout worship of special legal and political forms." - John Dewey.

"'Free as a bird,' we say, and envy the winged creatures for their power of movement in all three dimensions. But, alas, we forget the dodo. Any bird that has learned how to grub up a good living without being compelled to use its wings will soon renounce flight and remain forever grounded. Something analogous is true of human beings. If the bread is supplied regularly and copiously three times a day, many of them will be perfectly content to live by bread alone - or at least by bread and circuses alone." - Aldus Huxley.

"Every individual is biologically unique and unlike all other individuals. Freedom is therefore a great good, tolerance a great misfortune. For practical or theoretical reasons, dictators, organization men and certain scientists are anxious to reduce the maddening diversity of mens' natures to some kind of manageable uniformity." - Aldus Huxley.

"We can be educated for freedom - much better educated for it than we are at present." - Aldus Huxley.

"We know that it is unsafe to allow power to be concentrated in the hands of a ruling oligarchy; nevertheless power is in fact being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands." - Aldus Huxley.

"some of us still believe that, without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them." - Aldus Huxley.

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac Asimov.

"...the constitution is under attack and you need to know that you are the constitution's last line of defense." - attribution lost [locate?].

"Ponzi schemes don't work when the private sector tries them, and they still don't work when the government tries them." - Peter Schiff.

"To believe in rights is to believe that certain key interests of individuals, in liberty and well-being, deserve special protection, and that they should not be sacrificed for the sake of greater efficiency or prosperity or for any aggregate of lesser interests under the heading of the public good." - Jeremy Waldron.

"Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter--by peaceful or revolutionary means--into the making of laws....Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it" - Frederic Bastiat.

[re other worlds] "If you're a conservative, you worry about it killing us; if you're a liberal, you worry about us killing it." - NASA Ames director Simon Worden.

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford.

"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." - Friedrich August von Hayek.

"I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect." - Temple Grandin.

"The art of government lies in knowing nothing at the proper moment." - Edgar Wallace (1912).

"It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses--the precise place where you would expect to see the least" - Alan Charles Kors.

"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." - George Bernard Shaw.

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." - Ronald Reagan.

"A people free to choose will always choose peace." - Ronald Reagan.

"All great change in America begins at the dinner table." - Ronald Reagan.

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk." - Ronald Reagan.

"Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources." - Ronald Reagan.

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement." - Ronald Reagan.

"Don't be afraid to see what you see." - Ronald Reagan.