"Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs."

Politics, Blessings, Children, Future, Nation

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

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"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

Townsend Harris, American Businessman

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"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later."

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"Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available."

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"I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students."

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