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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " .

All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.