"If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner."

-- Frederic Bastiat

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“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”
“But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.”
“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”
“Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.”
“I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!”
“I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what.”

Source : "St-Pierre, Diaz go at it on conference call". www.espn.com. March 8, 2013.
“Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.”
“I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.”

Source : "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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