Mark Wood

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"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte.
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"1776 Americans: "Give me liberty or give me death! 2011 Americans: "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!" - Judge Andrew Napolitano.
"The problem has been developing for many years: a sort of economic alcoholism in which society has depended upon government to solve all its problems...We became economic alcoholics, dependent on government, and have had no concept of who will pay the price for this happy addiction." - Sir Antony Fisher, 1984.
"A petty thief is put in jail. A great thief becomes a ruler of a State." - Chuang-tzu.
"I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like zero." - Ron Paul.
"That government is best which governs least" - Henry David Thoreau.
"The essence of an individual's freedom is the opportunity to deviate from traditional ways of thinking and of doing things." - Ludwig von Mises.
"It does not matter how the cotton is picked once we end slavery. What matters is that slavery is immoral." - Matthew Reece.
"It is not the function of Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." - Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Judge.
"You can't be helpful if you don't have a way to avoid being cheated." - Brian Hare.
"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Being is the great explainer." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Every people have gods to suit their circumstances." - Henry David Thoreau.
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." - Henry David Thoreau.
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man." - Henry David Thoreau.
"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference." - Henry David Thoreau.
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams." - Henry David Thoreau.
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau.
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau.

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