John Sherman famous quotes

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If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life.
-- John Sherman

#Kings #Economic Inequality #Political
It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.
-- John Sherman

#Fun #Climbing #Years
Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.
-- John Sherman

#Forever #Would Be #Injury
Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.
-- John Sherman

#Climbing #Gears #Sometimes
We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.
-- John Sherman

#People #Taxes
It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.
-- John Sherman

#Fun #Stuff

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Super silver, Hawaiian haze Sativa, indica, Solomon's grave Genesis, chapter one verse twelve ways Marijuana, hashish, everybody blaze Fuels and fibers, energy saved When the natives met the travelers, guess what they gave All praise due to the seeds they raised And the people all over the world that smoke J's Kings and queens, musicians, actors Everyday, working class, stoners, slackers Low key blazers and green bowl packers If Mary Jane is in the house then I'm gon' mack her This is dedicated to everybody in the world that smoke weed Legalize it
There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love women, who think theyâ€™re the most amazing people in the world. And thatâ€™s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life.
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism... of sexism... of religious intolerance... of war... of gross economic inequality But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

John Sherman famous quotes

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