"We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them."

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Source : "Property and Freedom: The Inseparable Connection". Speech at an "Evenings at FEE" event, fee.org. October 2004.

Richard Pipes

#Eye Quotes #Rights Quotes #Government Quotes

“The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.”
“Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.”
“Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.”
“As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.”
“I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.”
“The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.”
“I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.”
“Itâ€™s about a singer who first sneered about my allegedly not authentic style but later she stole and copied it. And now sheâ€™s acting like I am the art project and she the true super artist. My God and people actually believe her, sheâ€™s successful! I shouldn't continue ranting, it doesnâ€™t get anywhere.”

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