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Quotes:

"Life is an unfolding process of becoming." - Tim Connor.

"Sow a thought and you reap an act... sow an act and you reap a habit... sow a habit and you reap a character... sow a character and you reap a destiny." - Charles Reade.

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Quality begins on the inside... then works its way out." - Bob Moawad.

"All outside greatness is merely an incidental reflection of the inside." - Ralph Parlette.

"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin.

"Success is measured not by the height one attains but by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment." - Booker T. Washington.

"They only live who dare." - Voltaire.

"Circumstance does not make a man, it reveals him." - James Allen.

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." - Abraham Lincoln.

"When you lose, don't lose the lesson." - Anonymous.

"When you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill.

"Live as you will wish to have lived." - Christian Gellert.

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." - Cherokee Proverb.

"Before you try to change others, remember how hard it is to change yourself." - Unknown.

"The classical or orthodox gold standard alone is a truly effective check on the power of the government to inflate the currency. Without such a check all other constitutional safeguards can be rendered vain." - Ludwig von Mises.

"Failure to understand not only that un-designed social orders are real, but also that these un-designed orders are superior to any arrangements that could be consciously engineered, is perhaps the greatest source of tyranny and disorder of the past 200 years." - Donald J. Boudreaux, Professor of Economics at George Mason University.

"Markets without property rights are a grand illusion." - Warren Nutter.

"Our cities suffer from the belief that only governments can plan grandly and only grand plans work." - Lynn Scarlett.

"Much of the chaos that planners fail to mold into order is precisely the dynamism and diversity that drive economic prosperity. The vitality of cities depends on disorder." - Lynn Scarlett.

"Public planners do not establish plans where none exist. They instead replace the plans of individual citizens with those of government officials and the elite that curry their favor." - Lynn Scarlett.

"To sacrifice the greater good for the less and then not to get the lesser good after all - that is the surprising folly... Every preference of a small good to a great, or a partial good to a total good, involves the loss of the small or partial good for which the sacrifice was made. Apparently the world is made that way. If Esau really got his pottage in return for his birthright, then Esau was a lucky exception. You can't get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first." - From C.S. Lewis' 1942 essay "First and Second Things."

"There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess." - Friedrich August von Hayek.

"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." - Lord Acton.

"Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades." - Lysander Spooner.

"Whatever happened to crazy? What, ya can't be crazy no more? Should we take crazy out of the dictionary?" - Chris Rock.

"Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense." - Ron Paul.

"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before." - Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff, 2008.

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison.