Richard J. Maybury famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.
-- Richard J. Maybury

#War #Rome #Cities
You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps their worst was that their Bill of Rights stops at the border. Inside the US, the federal government has been limited. Beyond the borders, the government has been able to do anything it wanted.
-- Richard J. Maybury

#Freedom #Mistake #Government
Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.
-- Richard J. Maybury

#Freedom #Persons #Property
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other side of the story - the side that reflects poorly on the government - somehow gets lost.
-- Richard J. Maybury

#War #School #Government
To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does
-- Richard J. Maybury

#Country #Mean #Fighting
In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.
-- Richard J. Maybury

#Government #Excuse #Taxes

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!
I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

Richard J. Maybury famous quotes

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