"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

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"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Goldwater, Barry on liberty
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"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

Gracian, Baltasar on fights and fighting
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"A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends."

Gracian, Baltasar on enemies
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"It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed."

Unknown, Source on taxes and taxation
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"There is no record in history of a happy philosopher."

Mencken, H. L. on philosophers and philosophy   

"Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt."

Cobbett, William on taxes and taxation   

"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible."

Thoreau, Henry David on taxes and taxation   

"Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer."

Unknown, Source on taxes and taxation   

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

Keynes, John Maynard on inflation   

"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on hypocrisy
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"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking
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"Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism -- and the best journalists have always known this. True gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor. Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it -- or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character."

Thompson, Hunter S. on journalism and journalists
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"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."

Thompson, Hunter S. on journalism and journalists
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"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

Thompson, Hunter S. on twentieth century
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"We must realize that todays Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution. "

Douglas, William O. on uncategorised   

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."

Douglas, William O. on justice
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"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."

Zappa, Frank on government
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"In Germany they came first for the Communist, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."

Niemoeller, Martin on oppression   

"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on freedom
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"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on freedom
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"He who dares not (reason), is a slave."

Drummond, William on freedom   

"You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free."

Darrow, Clarence on freedom
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"Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man."

Cervantes, Miguel De on freedom   

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it."

Kennedy, John F. on freedom   

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free."

Thoreau, Henry David on freedom
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"It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout."

Unknown, Source on freedom   

"He who is brave is free."

Seneca on freedom
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"We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on freedom
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"The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it."

Brecht, Bertolt on law and lawyers
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"The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]"

Shakespeare, William on law and lawyers
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"There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

Thoreau, Henry David on problems
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"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."

Rand, Ayn on vision
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"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Einstein, Albert on humankind
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"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."

Einstein, Albert on life
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Einstein, Albert on music
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

Einstein, Albert on opposition
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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."

Einstein, Albert on relativity
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