Rachel Maddow  - Quotes

 The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.  

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George Carlin  - Quotes

 I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. 

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Glenn Beck  - Quotes

 You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense. 

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John McCain  - Quotes

 I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

 

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Ronald Reagan  - Quotes

 Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream. 

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Mahatma Gandhi  - Quotes

 An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. 

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Abraham Lincoln  - Quotes

 Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. 

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Martin Luther King  - Quotes

 I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality 

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Jonah Goldberg  - Quotes

 If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying.  

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Laura Bush  - Quotes

 I turned to books for comfort.

(Former First Lady, Laura Bush)
 

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Utah Phillips  - Quotes

 The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're

born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you

assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to

which you resist is the degree to which you are free...
 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson  - Quotes

 Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. 

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Robert Louis Stevenson  - Quotes

 Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard. 

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Ron Paul  - Quotes

 Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. 

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David McCullough  - Quotes

 Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams 

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Tom Robbins  - Quotes

 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity. 

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Dennis Kucinich  - Quotes

 Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

 

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Ron Paul  - Quotes

 Let the revolution begin. 

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Aaron Burr  - Quotes

 To the union of all honest men. 

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David Sedaris  - Quotes

 I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat.  

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Robert Anton Wilson  - Quotes

 It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. 

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George Orwell  - Quotes

 No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? 

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Thomas Jefferson  - Quotes

 To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propatation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. 

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Herbert Hoover  - Quotes

 Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. 

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George Orwell  - Quotes

 Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. 

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Mark Twain  - Quotes

 There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress. 

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Clarence Page  - Quotes

 It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist. 

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Aaron Rouse  - Quotes

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John Grisham  - Quotes

 Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County. 

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Blaise Pascal  - Quotes

 There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws. 

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Naomi Klein  - Quotes

 ng them first refusal on government contracts and offering them economic incentives to trade with one another. By 2006, there were roughly 100,000 co-operatives in the country, employing more than 700,000 workers. Many are pieces of state infrastructure  

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Ron Paul  - Quotes

 A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. 

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Frank Zappa  - Quotes

 The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced. 

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Audre Lorde  - Quotes

 When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

 

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James Madison  - Quotes

 No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. 

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Herbert Marcuse  - Quotes

 The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and allelse, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses! 

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Pauline Melville  - Quotes

 Ladies and Gentlemen. I should like to inform you on behalf of the nation state of Guyana, that we are going to resign from being a country. We can't make it work. We have tried. We have done our best. It is not possible. The problems are insoluble. From midnight tonight, we shall cease trading. The country is now disbanded. We will voluntarily liquidate ourselves. The nation will disperse quietly, a little shamefaced but so what. We had a go.



Different people have suggested different solutions. Do it this way. Try that. Let me have a go. Nothing works. We are at the mercy of the rich countries. A team of management consultants from the United States could not find the answer, and for not finding the answer, we had to pay them an amount that substantially increased our national debt. We give in, gracefully, but we give in.
 

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