The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.
Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
God created men to test the souls of women.
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.
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