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"There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world."
— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."
— Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
— Herbert Agar
"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'---that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
— John Keats (1820)
"The uncontested slogans of today, are the accepted virtues of tomorrow."
— Ayn Rand (1970AD)
"The way to be safe is never to be secure."
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
— George Bernard Shaw (1903)
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
— Patrick Henry (23 March 1775) speech to the Virginia Convention
"If a nation expects to be ignorant — and free — in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
— Thomas Jefferson (6 January 1816)
"... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
— Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
— Thomas Jefferson (6 January 1816)
"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride legitimately, by the grace of God."
— Thomas Jefferson (24 June 1826)
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
— Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence."
— John Adams (1735-1836) A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have."
— Barry Goldwater
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
— James Madison (1787, Federalist Paper #10)
"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
— John Adams, letter to John Taylor, April 15,1814
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
—Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens....There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends & books."
— Thomas Jefferson (13 January 1813)
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
— Thomas Paine
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
— Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"I am, therefore I think." (Sum, ergo cogito)
— Wm. B. Steele (2000AD)
"The first animal domesticated by man, was man himself."
— Wm. B. Steele (2000AD)
"Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall."
— John Adams (5 December 1777)
"Happiness is the goal and reward of life"
— John Galt, from Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
"Happiness is not where you are, but how you got there."
— Wm. B. Steele (2001AD)
"A life without meaning is the torture of restlessness and vague desire, it is a boat, longing for the sea and yet afraid."
— Edgar Lee Masters
"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
— Ayn Rand
"I swear — by my life and love of it — that I will never live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine."
— Galt's oath, from Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
"One of these centuries, the brutes, private or public, who believe that they can rule their betters by force, will learn the lesson of what happens when brute force encounters mind and force."
— Ragnar Danneskjöld, from Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."
— Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."
— Origin Unknown
