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Corporations do not make up this country, people do.
If I am real, if I am speaking from the heart zone, the right words will come. They will come a spoonful at a time, in the proper mixture.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
While birds can fly, only humans can argue. Argument is the affirmation of our being. It is the principal instrument of human intercourse. Without argument the species would perish.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one — one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
We are defined by how we use our power.
Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The major functions of the government are, as in the communist nations, operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.
Our prejudices — we all have them — are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals’ rights – which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The goal of a free nation is to reveal by example the enlightened possibilities of the human race, not to wield its power of destruction and death over the helpless, the poor, the starving and the war torn masses.
Have We Already Been Defeated? (2001)
Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war. Because the enemy is not human. This is a war against a malicious spirit. Only fools attempt to defeat a spirit with guns and rockets and bombs.
Have We Already Been Defeated? (2001)
Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded — after all, the cop was protecting us.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)