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All Quotes Collection
"There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need."
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"War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder."
20
"Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated."
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"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds."
46
"The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past."
44
"The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor."
45
"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."
45
"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible."
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"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."
45
"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
55
"I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to."
28
"The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom."
37
"The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs."
43
"Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health."
37
"The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action."
32
"Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy."
33
"How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?"
31
"Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles."
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"I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime."
34
"It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer."
35
"It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so."
48
"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us."
41
"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
44
"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."
64
"Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it."
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"Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it."
46
"It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man."
46
"Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses."
38
"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."
72
"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek."
75
"Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge."
43
"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."
41
"Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave."
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