Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.
      Joan Didion

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
      William James

There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventialities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.
      Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
      Herbert Spenser

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
      Pericles (430 B.C.)

Taxation of earnings for labor is on par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to cary on various activities.
      Robert Nozick

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
      P.J. O'Rourke

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the productiona nd exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.
      Albert Jay Nock

It is not useful, but hurtful, that the constitution of this country should declare ignorance to be entitled to as much political power as knowledge.
      J.S. Mill

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
      Ayn Rand

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence
      Charles A. Beard (1874 - 1948)

The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution: neither is it in any manner dependent on that instrument for its existence. The second amendment meass no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress, and has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government.
      92 U.S. 542, U.S. v. Curishank (U.S. la. 1875)

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
      Barry Goldwater

We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: ... an end to the power of financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand... the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education... We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents... The government must undertake the improvement of public health - by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor... by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the ... materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of the common good before the individual good.
      Nazi Party political program, adopted in Munich, February 24, 1920
      (Sounds familiar, doesn't it? And, no, I don't agree with it.)

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
      Ayn Rand

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
      P.J. O'Rourke

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