Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
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Ronald Reagan
The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all...
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C. Joybell C.
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.
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Jon Stewart
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know–and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me–has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great...
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H.l. Mencken
We do need a system, and we do need you and your 'Bertos, and sometimes we need Sam to just come along and kick some ass. - Quinn
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Michael Grant
More Quotes By Richard M. Weaver
Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.
[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.
It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil.. . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.
