Decree Quotes - Page 9

• You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Thinking, Order

  "Non-Violent Resistance". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, Courier Corporation, p. 238, 2012.

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• You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

  Shere Hite

  Sexually, Women's Rights

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.358, Seven Stories Press

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• O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Son, Love Is, Men

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• There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

  Isabel Paterson

  Children, Parent, Arbitrary

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Essentials, Enforcement

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Ideas, Numbers

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Mistake, Gun, Rights

  "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

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