The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye, " Jefferson said.
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
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Ayn Rand
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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John F. Kennedy
Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?
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Laurell K. Hamilton
Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
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Stephen Fry
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
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Ayn Rand
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Baron Humboldt asked Jefferson, "Why are these libels allowed? Why is not this libelous journal suppressed, or its editor at least, fined and imprisoned? The question gave Jefferson a perfect opening. "Put that paper in your pocket, Baron, and should you hear the reality of...
Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.
