"Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice."

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Sacrifice Quotes #Rights Quotes #Justice Quotes

“When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.”

Source : John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.16, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.”
“Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.”
“There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.”
“Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.”
“More data beats clever algorithms, butÂ better data beats more data.”
“At 28, you need recovery time after training.”
“In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the great Silence, where you could not get at them, or they at you, then doubts, aching doubts took possession of one.”

Source : Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1971). “Ultima Thule”

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