Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
The purpose of the state is really freedom.
When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.
Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top
The illusion of free will, of freedom, is a useful tool you know. Let people think they are free and present them with a danger to their so-called freedom, a fear. It__ amazing how much you can get them to deal with just as long as you tell them they__e still free.
Don't ask me to pray, instead ask me to act.
The fundamental basis of this nation__ laws was given to Moses on the Mount_If we don__ have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.
The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.
Fear, that__ the great motivator though. Fear keeps it all in check. Fear of one__ neighbor. Fear of those who don__ look like you. Fear of those who live in some barren desert halfway across the globe,_ Sean continued. __omestic terrorism, just as much as fear of those abroad has helped people accept more intrusion into their everyday lives. To accept less freedom as freedom itself.
As America slept, our constitutional quilt was slowly being unraveled by special interest... I hope you like the cold.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner _ an empty vessel - at the feet of the legends of human history. I was a seeker of truth, travelling through time while quenching my thirst for knowledge. And a humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.