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“In a truly free society, individuals are granted responsibility for themselves. Freedom necessitates that we learn how to provide for ourselves, contributing value in whatever form, to generate personal income. We then decide how we wish to spend or save earned income; freedom is the reward for fulfilling personal responsibilities.”
― Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
― Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
“Women out in the village don't talk back to their husbands. It's just a law, when men say something, women should just listen. And you should never talk in a loud voice because a man outside might hear. I made that mistake, but I was lucky. In Tarinkot, a man beat his wife with an ax, and she survived, but her head was split open. Husbands who only use their hands or feet are very kind." -Heela (Gopal's female civilian Afghan respondent)”
― No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
― No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
“Set the highest example. Remember, no one ever did anything absolutely right. Perfection is impossible, but striving for perfection is not. You have the power to do that.”
― The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228
― The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228
“My challenge to every American is simple: reject the Left’s victim narrative and do it yourself. Because we will never realize the true potential that this incredible country has to offer—in the land of the free and the home of the brave—if we continue to be shackled by the great myth of government deliverance.”
― Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
― Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
“All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others.”
― The Wright Brothers
― The Wright Brothers
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