“He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 210 of 1106
“We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.”
“National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.”
“What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”
“We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.”
“the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
“To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to rob others without interruption. To still others it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody peace simply means the absence of any physical violence that might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their animal appetites for comfort and pleasure.”
“The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.”
“The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.”
“Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.”
“Love is hate War is Peace No is Yes And we're all free.”
“The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.”
“We all have to meet our match sometime or other.”
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
“The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.”
“Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.”
“With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.”
“Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?”
“Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.”