William J. Murray famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.
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Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct...
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Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.
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Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
-- William J. Murray
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws.
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Labor is the law of happiness.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
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My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
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I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
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The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
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