Protector Quotes - Page 6

• An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Taxation, Contradiction, States

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• King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Climbing

  William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.478

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• Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the
  benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be at the mercy of
  monsters. It is about time that we understood that the U.S. government does
  more to endanger the American people than any imagined monsters around the
  world…by pursuing its Grand Foreign Policy of meddling anywhere and
  everywhere.

  Sheldon Richman

  Government, People, Monsters

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• I have three sons, and I think were both fierce protectors of our children.

  Jami Gertz

  Children, Son, Thinking

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• Theologians and other clerks,
  You won't understand this book,
  -- However bright your wits --
  If you do not meet it humbly,
  And in this way, Love and Faith
  Make you surmount Reason, for
  They are the protectors of Reason's house.

  Marguerite Porete

  Book, House, Clerks

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• Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

  Robin Tunney

  Women, Years, Differences

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• Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector.

  John Forsythe

  Animal, Men, World

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• A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, People, Presidential

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• 'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR, AND EVEN IF IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TRAVEL ALONE YOU WOULD NEED TO CARRY SO MUCH BAGGAGE THAT IT WOULD DETAIN YOU IN MAKING RAPID CHANGES. BESIDES YOU SPEAK NOTHING BUT ENGLISH, SO THERE IS NO USE TALKING ABOUT IT; NO ONE BUT A MAN CAN DO THIS.'

  Nellie Bly

  Badass, Men, Talking

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.103, Golgotha Press

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• Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own responsibility's been assumed by Protectors of Aborigines and by government officials and if you become part of that system, it's always difficult to break out of it.

  Lowitja O'Donoghue

  Leadership, Responsibility, Government

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• Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

  David Mamet

  Police, Groups, Citizens

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Mean, Animal, Voice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.

  Ian Fleming

  Past, Doctors, People

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• The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.

  Edward Kennedy

  Independent, Abuse, Liberty

  "Kennedy's Opening Statement", www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2006.

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• The gods my protectors.
  [Lat., Di me tuentur.]

  Horace

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• I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.

  Neil Armstrong

  Law, White, Pockets

  "The Engineered Century". Neil Armstrong's remarks at the National Engineers Week on behalf of the National Academy of Engineering at the National Press Club, www.nae.edu. February 22, 2000.

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• You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Inspiring, Men, Ironic

  "Hit".

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