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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
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“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
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“History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation.
The Ambassador [of Tripoli] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.
{Letter from the commissioners, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson, to John Jay, 28 March 1786}”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
The Ambassador [of Tripoli] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.
{Letter from the commissioners, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson, to John Jay, 28 March 1786}”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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