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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

The common good comes before the private good.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help.".

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was activated by unselfish motives, ready to accept the role of martyr or executioner, as the cause demanded.

When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.