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"You can either be a host to God or a hostage to your ego." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

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"The communist man cannot be developed by encouraging a man's ambition, man's individualism, man's individual desires." - Fidel Castro

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Obama manipulates media to expel Fox

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"Not even Nixon tried to control the media like Obama" - Helen Thomas

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"The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power..." - Noam Chomsky

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"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." - A. J. Liebling

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"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

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"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press." - Mark Twain

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"The press is our chief ideological weapon." - Nikita Khrushchev

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"Every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others." - Walter E. Williams

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"The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss." - Tammy Bruce

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"When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear." - Thomas Sowell

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"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats." - Thomas Sowell

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"A welfare society should not induce people not to work hard." - Jin Liqun

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"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon." - Thomas Paine

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"The more you acquire the more you desire." - Horace

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"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus

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"Reality trumps theory" - M. E. Kabay

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"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old." - Lord Chesterfield

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"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will." - Saint Thomas Aquinas

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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - The 14th Dalai Lama

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"Men's minds have difficulty accepting things with which they have no previous experience." - Cofer Black

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"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice..." - James Madison

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"Political parties serve always to distract the public and enfeeble the public administration." - George Washington

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"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim." - Richard Bach

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"The experience that was had in this common course and condition...well evince the vanity..." - William Bradford

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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” - Ayn Rand

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"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law." - Thomas Paine

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"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God." - Thomas Jefforson

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"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson

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"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys" - P. J. O'Rourke

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“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” - Ayn Rand

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“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.” - Napolean Bonaparte

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"A wise and frugal government..."

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle

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"Avoid popularity if you would have peace." - Abraham Lincoln

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" Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln

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"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets." - Abraham Lincoln

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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln

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"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." - George Washington

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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington

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"Keep your thoughts positive..." - Gandhi

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"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? " - Plato

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"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." - Denis Waitley

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

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“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” - Thomas Sowell

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"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets." - Ronald Reagan

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"No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others." - Tammy Bruce

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"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved..." - Samuel Adams

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"The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more..." - John Adams

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"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves." -Nietzsche

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"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington

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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

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"The buck stops here!" - Harry Truman

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"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill

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"Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses." — George Washington Carver

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"By any measure, my administration has inherited a fiscal disaster." - Barack Obama

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"Without people feeling the need to work to make a living, sheltered by state regulations that are excessively paternalistic and irrational, we will never stimulate a love for work." - Raul Castro July 18, 2010

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"Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. " - Thomas Sowell

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"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future." - John F. Kennedy

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"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy

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"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln

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"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." - George Washington

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

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"We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude..." - Thomas Paine

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"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it..." - Alexis de Tocqueville

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"Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good...

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"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now ..." - John F. Kennedy

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"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today." - Thomas Sowell

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"Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies." - Thomas Sowell

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"People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." - Abraham Lincoln

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"Error does not become truth because it is widely accepted; Truth does not become error, even when it stands alone." - Unknown

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"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man" - Albert Einstein

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"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. " - Abraham Lincoln

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"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." - PJ O'Rourke

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"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides." - Walter Cronkite

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"Compare this (40% to 75% total local, State and Federal tax rate) to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor a third of their output and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?" - Daniel J. Mitchell

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"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it." - Thomas Sowell

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"Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left..." - Thomas Sowell

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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain

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“rent ceilings are the most effective means yet for destroying cities, even more effective than the hydrogen bomb.” - Assar Lindbeck Swedish economist

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“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” - Gerald Ford

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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington

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"If you think redistricting is always partisan and political which it is...it's going to be on steroids this time." - Rahm Emanuel President Obama's Chief of Staff

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"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich...

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"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson

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"We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot!" - Henry Morganthau FDRs Treasury Secretary

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"I am above God and above the law." - Mao Zedong (or Tse Tung)

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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power." - Benjamin Franklin

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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages." - H.L. Mencken

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"No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity." - Ronald Regan

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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. - James Madison

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There's no such thing as a free lunch - Milton Friedman

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. - Milton Friedman

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"The fanatical atheists are like slaves..."

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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. - Theodore Roosevelt

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"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell

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in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable...2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax - Carl Marx

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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