"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."
~ Voltaire
"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
~ George Washington
"The people cannot be all, & always well informed... If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly
can pay for the benefit of the other third."
~ Voltaire
"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
~ George Washington
"Democracy passes into despotism."
~ Plato
"That government is best which governs least."
~ Thomas Paine
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state,
an intolerable one."
~ Thomas Paine
"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
~ George Washington
"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a
United States of Europe."
~ George Washington
"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
~ George Washington
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general
prosperity."
~ Martin Van Buren
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
~ H. L. Mencken
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
~ James Madison
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
~ Milton Friedman
"The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the
protection of which Government was instituted."
~James Madison
"It is not strange... to mistake change for progress."
~
Millard Fillmore
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as
possible from one class of citizens to give to another."
~ Voltaire
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LIBERTY
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"We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties."
~
James Madison
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and
slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as
for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
~ Patrick Henry
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be
slaves."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man
is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."
~
James Madison
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people
by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden
usurpations."
~
James Madison
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who
approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright
force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
~ Patrick Henry
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the
transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
~ Patrick Henry
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are
worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against
all attacks."
~ Samuel Adams
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given
medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
~
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was
different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
~ Patrick Henry
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
~
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess
the most precious of all - liberty!"
~
James Monroe
"To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary
amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul,
the dweller in the body."
~ Mohandas Gandhi
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
~
George Washington
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RELIGION
================
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
~ Voltaire
"Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
~ Voltaire
"To believe in God is impossible, not to believe in Him is absurd."
~ Voltaire
"All religions have been made by men."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would
be my god."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
===================
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"The great object is that every man be armed."
~ Patrick Henry
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of
their arms."
~ Aristotle
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms,
is the best most natural defense of a free country."
~ James Madison
"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the
United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
~ Samuel Adams
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess
over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to
trust the people with arms."
~ James Madison
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we
cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
~ Patrick Henry
"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private
self-defense."
~ John Adams
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve
order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the
law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
~ Thomas Paine
"Free men have arms; slaves do not."
~ William Blackstone
"The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and
bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be
the victim of evil."
~ Ted Nugent
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REVOLUTION
============
"What country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be
doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
~ John Adams
"Every generation needs a new revolution."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"Injustice in the end produces independence."
~ Voltaire
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STARTING A BUSINESS
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"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
~ Benjamin Franklin
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
~ Alexander the Great
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
~ Confucius
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
~ Plato
"Buy land, they're not making it anymore."
~ Mark Twain
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"I have only one counsel for you - be master."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."
~ John D. Rockefeller
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."
~ Flip Wilson
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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FALSE FLAG ATTACKS
====================
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting
a foreign enemy."
~
James Madison
"All war is deception."
~ Sun Tzu
"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws
before destroying them."
~ Voltaire
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
~
George Washington
"Clever tyrants are never punished."
~ Voltaire
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to
make you commit injustices."
~ Voltaire
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit
atrocities."
~ Voltaire
"To the wicked, everything serves as pretext."
~ Voltaire
"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the
provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
~
James Madison
"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce."
~ Voltaire
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities
are wrong."
~ Voltaire
"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
~
James Madison
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the
instruments of tyranny at home."
~
James Madison
"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend
from without?"
~
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Only Americans can hurt America."
~
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."
~
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."
~ Confucius
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Wisdom
======
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you
shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
~ Socrates
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
~ Voltaire
Common sense is not so common.
~ Voltaire
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
~ Sir Winston Churchill
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
~ Voltaire
"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."
~ Voltaire
"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
~ Voltaire
"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech
only to conceal their thoughts."
~ Voltaire
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become
by achieving your goals."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Debt to Banks
================
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The debtor is slave to the lender.
~ Proverbs 22:7
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I have always been afraid of banks.
~ Andrew Jackson
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DON'T FORGET TO ENJOY LIFE
==========================
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
~ Socrates
"There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of
his life getting his living."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while,
you could miss it."
~ Ferris Bueller
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid,
but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Thrift
======
A small leak can sink a great ship.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
~ John D. Rockefeller
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
~ Plato
A penny saved is a penny earned.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
~ Benjamin Franklin
"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
~ Mark Twain
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Hard to Get a Loan
==================
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need
it.
~ Bob Hope
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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Money
======
Go where the money is... and go there often.
~ Willie Sutton
"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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Stocks
======
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
~ Plato
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~ Plato
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Philanthropy
=============
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
~ Voltaire
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Taxes
=====
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
~ Albert Einstein
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on
the same amount of income.
~ Plato
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
~ Chris Rock
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed.
Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no
claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
~ Alan Keyes
Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to
force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let
me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what
we need to be about.
~ Timothy Pawlenty
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax
revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow
money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad
for average Americans.
~ Ron Paul
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible
from one class of citizens to give to another.
~ Voltaire
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Warcraft
========
Beware the hobby that eats.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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Poker
=====
"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art
of war."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's
superiority."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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Addiction
=========
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was
over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
~ Harry S. Truman
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
~ Benjamin Franklin
"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."
~ Voltaire
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as
nature requires.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
~ Benjamin Franklin
We never repent of having eaten too little.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by
yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
~ Plato
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only
to live.
~ Socrates
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Laws
=====
"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be
the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
~ Henry David Thoreau
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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PROTEST
=========
"Silence is consent."
"Your silence gives consent."
~ Plato
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Reputation
==========
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to
lose it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
"The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted."
~ Mohandas Gandhi
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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Dealing with People
====================
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was
hell.
~ Harry S. Truman
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The
combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or
nationality, will always point in the right direction.
~ Harry S. Truman
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
~ Voltaire
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
~ Voltaire
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
~ Voltaire
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War
===
"The first casualty of war is truth."
~ Hiram Johnson
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
~ Adolf Hitler
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the
defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
~ Harry S. Truman
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other
bastard die for his."
~ George S. Patton
I came, I saw, I conquered.
~ Julius Caesar
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the
beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and
in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
~ Winston Churchill
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Iraq War
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
~ John Quincy Adams
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting
a foreign enemy.
~ James Madison
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of
power.
~ James Madison
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
~ James Madison
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be
charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
~ James Madison
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there
is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or
other, in order that the people may require a leader.
~ Plato
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Medicine
==========
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the
disease.
~ Voltaire
KNOWLEDGE
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own
governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
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WAR
=====
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of
carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
James Madison
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
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KEEP IT SIMPLE
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"Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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AGING
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"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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SELF DISCOVERY
================
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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INVISIBLE PRISON PLANET
======================
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
~ Voltaire
"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the
rest of mankind."
~ Voltaire
"He that best understands the World, least likes it."
~ Ben Franklin
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
~ Mark Twain
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COURAGE
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"It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by
defying it that the brave escape."
~ Voltaire
"Fear is the passion of slaves."
~ Patrick Henry
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CONSTITUTION
==============
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George Washington
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that
was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
TAXES
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge
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LEADERSHIP
===========
"Learn to obey before you command."
~ Solon
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done
because he wants to do it."
~
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"I have only one counsel for you - be master."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and
will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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DEMOCRACY
============
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
~ Voltaire
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POLITICS
========
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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PRISON
========
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man
is also a prison."
~ Henry David Thoreau
JUST PLAIN FUNNY
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"You cannot spend your way out of a recession. You cannot regulate the economy
into oblivion and expect it to function. You cannot tax people and businesses to
the point of near slavery and expect them to keep producing. You cannot create
an abundance of money out of thin air without making all that paper worthless.
The government cannot make up for rising unemployment by just hiring all the out
of work people to be bureaucrats or send them unemployment checks forever. You
cannot live beyond your means indefinitely. The economy must actually produce
something others are willing to buy. Government growth is the opposite of all
these things."
~ Ron Paul
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FALSE NAMING
==============
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of
Words!"
~ Samuel Adams
"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire."
~ Voltaire
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BRAIN WASHING
===============
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but
you will never imprison my mind."
~ Mohandas Gandhi
"Those who know how to think need no teachers."
~ Mohandas Gandhi
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LOVE
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"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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My beliefs
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All taxes should be paid once a year, in one lump sum, on April 16th so people can actually visualize what is being taken from us.
and... If elections were held on April 16th, the day after we paid our income taxes in-full, Democrats would never again get elected.
Our money is double taxed, once when you earn it and once when you spend it.
All religions have been made by men.