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The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

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A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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