Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
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It is not the employer who pays—he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of a great government.
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
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A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have had the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The only trouble is it couldn’t have stood up.
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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
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When things don’t go well they like to blame presidents; and that’s something that presidents are paid for.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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Democracy is the art of disciplining oneself so that one need not be disciplined by others.
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It’s not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It’s the hand that casts the ballot.
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Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
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The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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That old law about “an eye for an eye” leaves everybody blind.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
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The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.
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We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
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Patriotism is not so much protecting the land of our fathers as preserving the land of our children.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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The function of freedom is to free somebody else.
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Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
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America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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Such a land [British Columbia] is good for an energetic man. It is also not so bad for the loafer.
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Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
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The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities—a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Progress might have been all right once, but it’s gone on too long.
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The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God’s mind—a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you’ve just made a down payment on a house.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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