Potent Quotables

An Empty Vessel

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.”
--Plato

Heaviest Things

“The heaviest things in life aren’t iron and gold but unmade decisions. The reason you are stressed is because you have decisions to make and you are not making them.”
--Unknown

War's Relationships

“War is young boys who do not know each other, killing each other, on behalf of old men who do know each other.“
--Elon Musk

Haters are gonna Hate

“Your haters are out there holding their breathe waiting for you to fail. Make sure they suffocate.”
--Unknown

“People who have been brainwashed and narcissists are similar. Both are self-absorbed and self-centered. They do not know, can not question, and if confronted, will deny their condition. The good news, brainwashing can be reversed.”
--Jeffrey Fry

The Devil's Focus

“When the devil ignores you, then know you are doing something wrong. When the devil comes at you, maybe it's because you are trying to do something right.”
--Denzel Washington

Revenge Based Civilization

“All civilization is based on revenge. Some may call it justice or laws, but knowing in some way if you mess with my stuff or with me I can mess with you and yours, have in the past few millennia kept us somewhat civilized and have stayed the hand of most sane people.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Life is Simple

“Life is pretty simple. It is to be valued for our talents, to be loved and have someone to love, to work at something worthwhile, to possess at least one close friend, to have no wants of food or shelter, to be remembered when we pass, and to leave the world better for our children and grandchildren.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Motivated By Meaning

“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.”
--Greg Anderson

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Insecure People

“Anxious and insecure people tend to seek out powerful patrons and ideologies to which to conform in order to feel “safe.” When you have little faith in your own identity or drives, the desire to be subsumed and validated by the will of others is a powerful opiate.”
--Boriqua Gato

Able Thought

“They are able because they think they are able.”
--Virgil

Seems Too Big, Be Audacious

“When a situation seems too big or scary and the expectation is you are going to fold, audacity can get you a pretty far to overcoming it.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Authorities are Wrong

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
--Voltaire

No Mistakes? Work Harder

“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.”
--Frank Wilczek

Lack the Capacity

“People who lack the capacity to earn a decent living need to be helped, but they will not be helped by minimum-wage laws, trade-union wage pressures or other devices which seek to compel employers to pay them more than their [labor] is worth. The more likely outcome of such regulations is that the intended beneficiaries are not employed at all.”
--James Tobin

Ambition

“Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.”
--Warren G. Harding

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Stinging Criticism

“If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism.”
--Dale Carnegie

Harmonious Thoughts

“Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds, and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.”
--Napoleon Hill

Demagogic Hustle

“The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.”
--Thomas Sowell

Lives Begin to End

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Care About

“The only thing you care about when you’re afraid is results. The only thing you care about when you’re calm is doing the right thing.”
--Maxime Lagacé

True but Imperfect

“I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.”
--F.A. Hayek

Unhidden

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
--Buddha

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Struggle with a Problem

“When you struggle with a problem, that is when you understand it.”
--Elon Musk

Great Players

“Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. Great players want the coach to tell them the truth.”
--Nick Saban

All You Know Is Previlege

“When all you have known is privilege, equal treatment feels like oppression.”
--Unknown

Mentally Ill People

“Certain sorts of the mentally ill people seek power over others as they cannot control themselves. It is a way to try to substitute regulating the world around them for self-stability by seeking to make to their own internal dysregulation seem fitting or laudable.”
--Boriqua Cato

Two Solutions

“There are always, at least, two solutions: an optimal solution and a radical one.”
--Maia Kariauli

Keep Walking

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
--Buddhist Proverb

Gain In Venture

“Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
--William Chaucer

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Ruin Life

“Don't try to ruin my life with lies, when your life can be ruined with the truth.”
--Gina Carano

Our Constitution

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
--John Adams

Political Commendations

“A politician who commends himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to spend funds with other peoples’ money.”
--P. J. O’Rourke

Present Circumstances

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.”
--Nido Qubein

Any New Beginning

“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.”
--Craig Lounsbrough

Rich and Poor

“The primary difference between a rich person and poor person is how they manage fear.”
--Robert Kiyosaki

Assist Up

“Never look down unless you are helping someone up.”
--Unknown

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Be So Busy

“Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.”
--Karen Salmansohn

Sacred Idea

“Any idea too sacred to be challenged is already dead.”
--Bryan Johnson

Nothing Is Free

“Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so-called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing.”
--Henry Hazlitt

Christmas Expectations

“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.”
-- David Grayson

Time to Give Thanks

“What is amazing is when we take time to give thanks and count our blessings, how many things become unimportant, and how fortunate and lucky we discover we are.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Ease our Fear

“The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.”
--Thich Nhat Hạnh

A Handful of Change

“Never doubt that a handful of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
--Margaret Mead

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Purpose of Life

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Pay Homage to Capitalism

“All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.”
--Ludwig von Mises

Lofty Solitude

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
--Arthur Schopenhauer

Write History

“Anyone can write history, only great individuals make it.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Government Wastes Money

“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
--P. J. O'Rourke

Spend Others Money

“Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.”
--Milton Friedman

Time Thief

“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
--Edward Young

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Proclaim the Truth

“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
--St. Catherine of Siena

Acquie Assets

“Rich people acquire assets. Other people acquire liabilities that they think are assets.”
--Robert Kiyosaki

Silence Terrifies

“Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.”
--Bob Dylan

Triump Over Fear

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
--Nelson Mandela

Stupid too Long

“Always attribute to malice that which has continued too long to be explained by stupidity.”
--Yuri Bezmenov

Stupidity but not Malice

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
--Robert J. Hanlon

Work At Luck

“Luck is not chance, it is toil.”
--Emily Dickinson

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Defend to the Death

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
--Oscar Wilde

Dumbed-down Education

“One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans; anything except reason.”
--Thomas Sowell

Improved Mind

“As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.”
--Pliny the Elder

The Best Revenge

“The best revenge is to be unlike the one who performed the injustice.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Count our Blessings

“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
--Neal A. Maxwell

Enslave

“Those who enslave others, inevitably become slaves themselves.”
--Jedi Proverb

Fear Less

“Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.”
--Swedish Proverb

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Had a Little More

“Thinking if you had a little more you should be very satisfied is a mistake, for if you are not content with what you have, you will not be satisfied if it were doubled.”
--Charles Spurgeon

Food for a Lifetime

“If you want food for a year, grow rice; if you want food for a decade, grow trees; if you want food for a lifetime, grow people.”
--Chinese Proverb

Advancement of Science

“The advancement of science can be summarized by recognizing what was thought impossible becoming a reality.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Out Dinner

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
--Adam Smith

Natural Stupidity

“The biggest problem with our world today is not artificial intelligence but natural stupidity.”
--Anand Tamboli

Drunken Sailor

“It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.”
--Art Laffer

Seize the Moment

“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.”
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Art of Thankfulness

“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”
--Norman Vincent Peale

Activism

“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.”
--Thomas Sowell

End Poverty

“If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.”
--Javier Milei

Liberal Understanding

“Liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.”
--Lenny Bruce

Subject to Sorrow

“You’re subject to sorrow, fear, jealousy, anger and inconsistency. That’s the real reason you should admit that you are not wise.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Concepts of Democracy

“To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”
--Aung San Suu Kyi

Cannot or Will Not

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
--Mark Twain

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Opinions of Others

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Rare Fortune

“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
--Tacitus

An American

“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

Never Turn Your Back

“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”
--Hunter S. Thompson

Life Teaches

“Life is the best teacher of all, yet most of the time, life does not talk to you it just pushes you around.”
--Robert T. Kiyosaki

Your Dreams

“Every morning you have two choices; continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.”
--Carmelo Anthony

Encourage Not Nag

“People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.”
--Harvey Mackay

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Stands For

“A strong man stands for himself, a stronger man stands for others.”
--Unknown

Study History

“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.”
--Thomas Sowell

Fear is your Friend

“Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn’t do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.”
--Timothy Ferriss

Venture To Do Something

“It is always the adventurers who accomplish great things.”
--Charles de Montesquieu

Kill them All

“Kill them all and let God sort them out.”
--Arnaud Amalric

Ready to Die for

“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
--Malcolm X

Encourage the Spirit

“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”
--Ovid

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Peaceful Reason

“Don’t ever think that the reason I am peaceful is because I have forgotten how to be violent.”
--Unknown

Rock Bottom

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
--J.K. Rowling

Believe Things

“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.”
--Thomas Sowell

Being Exceptional

“When being exceptional the one thing you will realize is inevitably you will be alone.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Dangerous Men

“Men who cannot control their emotions are dangerous.”
--Andrew Tate

Never by Accident

“Greatness needs luck, but it’s never by accident.”
--Unknown

Free Mind

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Live Forever

"The foolish man thinks he will live forever if he keeps away from fighting; but old age won't grant him a truce, even if the spears do.”
--Viking Proverb

Speak the Truth

“When it's uncomfortable, when it's unpopular, even when it's dangerous to speak the truth, is the precise time that the truth should be spoken.”
--Unknown

Problem of the World

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
--Bertrand Russell

Important Strategy

“In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

Make Your Liberty Secure

“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
--Thomas Paine

Push Yourself

“Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. You might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal, you are somewhere you have never been.”
--Terry Crews

Intelligent Self

“The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.”
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi

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Walk Alone

“The individual that sees truth may sometimes walk alone.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Walks Alone

“The man who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.”
--Francis Phillip Wernig

Truth, Justice and Humanity

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
--Malcolm X

No Constitutional Protection

“The Constitution cannot protect you if you do not protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.”
--Thomas Sowell

Use Solitude

“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.”
--Lao Tzu

Make Something Out of You

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”
--Muhammad Ali

Difficult Openings

“Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.”
--Myla Kabat-Zinn

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Utopian Thinking

“If your system of government relies upon the sagacity and ethics of the leaders who run it to keep you safe and free, you are engaging in utopian thinking, and are going to get the tyranny you deserve.”
--Boriqua Gato

To Live

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.”
--Oscar Wilde

Legislative Restraint

“The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means for providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements, which owe their origin to a zeal for liberty more ardent than enlightened.”
--Alexander Hamilton

Strategy's Importance

“The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

Open or Closed Mind

“A question opens the mind. A statement closes the mind.”
--Robert Kiyosaki

Dangerous Combination

“A high IQ and low information is a very dangerous combination.”
--Thomas Sowell

Getting Somewhere

“The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.”
--Charles Schwab

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End Democracy

“Liberals are now telling us they plan to protect American democracy and that's the clearest possible sign that they intend to end it.”
--Tucker Carlson

Gain Compliance

“If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt tripped, threatened, paid, punished, and criminalized; if all of this is necessary to gain your compliance you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.”
--Ian Watson

Pressure to Change

“In a free society there is always pressure to change it and make people less free. Leaders either move to the right with fascism or move to the left with socialism. In both cases, these movements meet at a dystopian place called collectivism. Ultimately it is about subjugation and taking away individual rights, liberties and freedoms and handing them to an elite few.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Actively Avoiding

“The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.”
--Robin Sharma

Media's Power

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
--Malcolm X

Impediment to Action

“Our actions may be impeded but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Praise

“Praise, like sunlight, helps all things to grow.”
--Unknown

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Change the World

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
--Paulo Coelho

Fear Suffering

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
--Michel de Montaigne

Succes is Leased

“Success isn’t owned. It’s leased. And rent is due every day.”
--J. J. Watt

People Doubt You

“When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history.”
--Scott Belsky

Hell is Emplty

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
--William Shakespeare

Evil Cannot Create

“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.”
--J.R.R. Tolkien

Love Lives

“We live in this world when we love it.”
--Rabindranath Tagore

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Chop Wood

“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
--Henry Ford

Great Limitations

“The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.”
--Denis Waitley

Moral Decay

“Decay is when we no longer live in a world where a man is as good as his word, but instead one where you are as good as the lie you can get away with.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Too Small Goals

“If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”
--Azim Premji

Art Against Negativity

“An entire sea of water cannot sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world cannot put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”
--Goi Nasu

Argue Against Socialism

“The dispute between the market order and socialism is no less than a matter of survival. To follow socialist morality would destroy much of present humankind and impoverish much of the rest.”
--F. A. Hayek

Life's Rules

“Dance like nobody's watching, sing like nobody's listening, love like you've never been hurt, and live like it's heaven on earth.”
--Mark Twain

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First Amendment

“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”
--William J. Brennan, Jr.

Real Masculinity

“Real masculinity is not dominating the weak; real masculinity is empowering the weak.”
--Anthony Gucciard

Place of Judgement

“Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand.”
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Morals Creation

“It is not our intellect that created our morals; rather, human interactions governed by our morals make possible the growth of reason and those capabilities associated with it.”
--F. A. Hayek

Liberty Takes Root

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. The checks he endeavors to give it, however warrantable by ancient usage, will, more than probably, kindle a flame which may not easily be extinguished.”
--George Washington

Understand the Universe

“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

Minor Heroes

“Man’s greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.”
--Victor Hugo

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Monsters Exist

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
--Primo Levi

Bought Votes

“As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom, and all our freedom, to be eroded away, bit by bit. Our children and grandchildren may yet come to see the Constitution as just some quaint words from the past that people once took seriously.”
--Thomas Sowell

Play a Clown

“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.”
--Malcolm X

American Labor

“If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.”
--Abraham Lincoln

An Evil Man

“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.”
--Unknown (misattributed to Sun Tzu)

Infinite Nothing

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
--William Shakespeare

Love's Beauty

“Love gives beauty to everything it touches.”
--Rabindranath Tagore

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Personified Nation

“The nation, like the State, is a personified concept. The nation has no life of its own apart from the individual, and is therefore not an end in itself. All life is individual life, in which alone the ultimate meaning is to be found.”
--Carl Jung

Never Dies

“Cattle die, kinsmen die; the self must also die. I know one thing which never dies; the reputation of each dead man.”
--Viking Proverb

Powerless

“Never make the mistake of believing you are powerless. No matter what happens, you still have control over your thoughts and actions.”
--Unknown

Exchanging Freedom

“Exchanging freedom for security is a mistake. Security always comes from strength not submission. Make yourself strong to keep yourself safe and free.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Fear Death

“It’s not that we fear death, it’s that we fear not living the life we want.”
--Naval Ravikant

Deny Freedom

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
--Abraham Lincoln

Forgiveness' Fragrance

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
--Mark Twain

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Thinks Himself Wise

“The only thing worse than a fool is a fool who thinks himself wise.”
--Jay Kristoff

Disciplined Lives

“Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.”
--Eliud Kipchoge

Constitutional Rights

“It does not matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the United States if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it does not matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials' power, if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences.”
--Thomas Sowell

Shoulders of Giants

“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”
--Isaac Newton

Stand Up For

“Because if you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.”
--Neil Gaiman

Truth Is What It Is

“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

A Gray Area

“Sometimes the difference between winning and losing or success and failure is that gray area of perseverance and will.”
--Howard Schultz

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Not Your Business

“If it is not your business, why do you care?”
--Irish Proverb

Saying Too Much

“Often there is regret for saying too much, and seldom regret for saying too little.”
--Viking Proverb

Revolutions Happen

“Revolutions always happen a little bit at a time, then all at once.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Greatest Fear

“I was set free because my greatest fear has been realized and I was still alive.”
--J.K. Rowling

Right as a Man

“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
--Thomas Paine

Live as a Lion

“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
--Benito Mussolini

No Reason to Change

“Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.”
--Carlos Castaneda

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Record of Failure

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

Alpha Male

“The lion does not wait for the lioness' permission.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Love Me For What I Am

“I must be myself, I cannot break myself any longer for you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

You Need Enemies

“To be successful in business, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies.”
--Christopher Ondaatje

Wheels of Justice

“The wheels of justice grind slow, but grind fine.”
--Sun Tzu

What Unites

“Look at what unites us and ignore the differences.”
--Chinese Proverb

Adjust Your Sails

“You can't do anything about the wind, but you can always adjust the sails.”
--Dr. Bob Chope

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An Honest Man

“All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are an honest man in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits. If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

One Good Reason

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
--Mary Frances Berry

Die to Preserve

“I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”
--Alexander Hamilton

Class of Parasites

“No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.”
--Thomas Sowell

Not Real Happiness

“I have the impression of being herded towards a uniform kind of happiness, toward a kind of happiness that doesn't really make me happy, that I am being conned by the powers that be.”
--Michel Houellebecq

Go Bankrupt

“At first you go bankrupt slowly, then all at once.”
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Best Friend

“The best way to have a good friend is to be one.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emotionally Led

“When you are an emotionally led person, you are more prone to chaos. It takes real stoicism to lead and be secure.”
--Andrew Tate

Mouse Traps

“Mice die in mouse traps because they do not understand why the cheese is free. The same is true with socialism.”
--Unknown

Empire Abroad

“America cannot have an empire abroad and a republic at home.”
--Mark Twain

Downfall of Man

“The downfall of man will not come because of the strength of our enemies, but because we forget why we stand our ground against impossible odds and lose sight on how vital the bonds of brotherhood are.”
--J.R.R. Tolkien

True Evil

“True evil starts by donning the outward trappings of good, but in its actions, doing the exact opposite.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Intellectual Opium

“Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.”
--Edmund Wilson

Dare Mightily

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

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Collectivist Systems

“With collectivist systems, the individual has always been a victim, twisted against him-or-her-self and commanded to be unselfish in sacrificial service to some allegedly higher value called pharaoh or emperor or king or society or the state or the race or the proletariat or the cosmos.”
--Nathaniel Branden

Any Power

“Any power that is only safe if the “right” people posses it is no power you want government anywhere near.”
--Malo Gato

Granting State Power

“Before granting any new power or prerogative to the State, first imagine that power wielded by the politician you hate most, because one day it will be.”
--Warren Meyer

Must Be Trouble

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
--Thomas Paine

Look Like Your Decisions

“In a capitalist society, your environment or conditions have nothing to do with your success. You are born looking like your parents, but when you die, you die looking like your decisions.”
--Unknown

Nobody is Responsible

“We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.”
--Thomas Sowell

Do Not Lie On Tracks

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Reality Manipulation

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
--Philip K. Dick

Better Late

“Better late than never.”
--Titus Livius (Livy)

Collectivism Paradox

“It is a strange paradox of our history that collectivism, which tells us that we are to regard ourselves, in effect, as sacrificial animals, has been generally accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for humankind. it is this collectivist morality that has served as justification for every dictatorship and every atrocity, past or present.”
--Nathaniel Branden

Most Stole Items

“The two most stolen items in the world are your freedom and your income.”
--Unknown

Become Wise

“Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.”
--Proverbs 13:20

Truth is a Lion

“The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.”
--Saint Augustine

Shared Warmth

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
--J. M. Barrie

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Cannot Endure Littleness

“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
--Earnest Becker

Diligent in Work

“Seest thou a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.”
--King Solomon

Liberty Lost

“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
--John Adams

Disinformation Program

“We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
--William Casey

Freedom Demanded

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Power of Mind

“The power of mind to discard suffering, endure pain, and still think clearly, comes only from discipline.”
--Clif High

Fight Twice

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
--Margaret Thatcher

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How Many Conservatives

“The next time some academic tells you how important diversity is, ask how many conservatives there are in their sociology department.”
--Thomas Sowell

Fear Judgement

“Many fear judgement more than failure.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Taxes Use

“Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes.”
--Thomas Paine

Fate of the Indolent

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.”
--John Philpot Curran

Children of the Devil

“For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
--John 8:44

Life is a Blessing

“Life is a blessing. It gives you a chance to be a net force of good in a fallen world.”
--Frank Stephen

Time And Effort

“Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.”
--André A. Jackson

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Free Expression

“The only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.”
--Christopher Hitchens

Absolute Lord

“Man is absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to nobody.”
--John Locke

Loyal Relastionships

“In relationships, a woman’s loyalty is tested when her man has nothing whereas a man’s loyalty is tested when he has everything.”
--Unknown

Morality Seperates

“Morality separates heroes from villains.”
--Jedi Proverb

Stupid Teachers

“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.”
--Thomas Sowell

Government's View

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
--Ronald Reagan

Power Play

“Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.”
--Woodrow Wilson

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Greedy Hand of Government

“We still feel the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.”
--Thomas Paine

To Be Free

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
--Nelson Mandela

Hate Speech

“Speech is hateful to those who hate the truth.”
--Unknown

Freedom Above All

“Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.”
--Peter Hitchens

Defeat Your Enemies

“Defeat your enemies in the fields before they reach your house.”
--Viking Proverb

Lavish Praise

“Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime.”
--Dale Carnegie

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Biggest Business Fear

“My biggest fear in business is customers with complaints who do not voice them.”
--Jeffry Fry

Purposeful Leader

“Great leaders are born out of the pursuit of a great purpose.”
--Roy Spence

Banking Issue

“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”
--Lord Acton

Calls for Unity

“How hypocritical are the calls for a unity that is a mask for the suppression of all opposition, how fatally lying or wrong are all beliefs that liberty is the peculiar attribute of any single individual or group, prince or democrat, nobles or people or multitude.”
--James Burnham