That #government is best which governs least

#HenryDavidThoreau

We turn not older with years but newer every day

#EmilyDickinson

One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others

#DavidHume

#Virtue begins when we want the same freedom for others that we want for ourselves

@BarryBrownstein

#Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out

#GeorgeCarlin

A man should be #upright, not kept upright

#MarcusAurelius

The ideal #tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves

#DresdenJames

I do not fix #problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves

@LouiseHay

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak

#Epictetus

#Education doesn't make you smarter

#AleksandrSolzhenitsyn

Ordaining of #laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy

#BenjaminFranklin

You can only protect your liberties by protecting the other man's #freedom. You can only be free if I am free

#ClarenceDarrow

It's vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. #Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought & speech

#LudwigVonMises

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults

#FrederickDouglass

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults

#FrederickDouglass

#Liberalism of the 1950s and '60s exalted civil liberties, individualism, and dissident thought and speech

#CamillePaglia

#Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim

#GeorgeSantayana

If an #opinion makes you angry, you're subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do

#BertrandRussell

#Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms

#Aristotle

#Ideas are about giving. And the more you give to the world, the more value you get back

@jAltucher