Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.
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Unknown
I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.
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Daniel Radcliffe
Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.
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A.E. Samaan
We ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)
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Michael Pollan
I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.
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A.E. Samaan
More Quotes By Elizabeth Drew
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic conditions, and frightening the investment of capital, prevent a prosperity...
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
