"Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will."

-- Gustave de Molinari

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Guarantees Quotes

“It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.”

Source : 1959 Of opening night reviews.The Ape In Me.
“Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.”
“I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.”
“There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.”
“It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.”
“A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.”

Source : T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.480, Open Road Media
“We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.”
“The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.”

Source : Lactantius, Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (1871). “The Works of Lactantius”, p.10

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