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You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you.
- — Pericles
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- — H.L. Mencken
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- — Thomas Jefferson
No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.
- — Immanuel Kant
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and willultimately lose its wealth as well.
- — W. Somerset Maugham, paraphrased
Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to rap, we should soon want bread.
- — Thomas Jefferson
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy," and the other, "tyranny."
- — Karl Popper
Ihmiset eivät arvosta oikeuksia, vaan etuoikeuksia.
- — HL Mencken
The ultimate purpose of the Soviet Union was to create a new historic entity, the Soviet people, all around the globe. The same is true in the EU today. They are trying to create a new people. They call this people “Europeans”, whatever that means.
- — Vladimir Bukovsky
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- — Thomas Jefferson
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