"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"

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Source : "The Law". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

Frederic Bastiat

#Believe Quotes #Race Quotes #People Quotes

“Iâ€™m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I canâ€™t really understand what it means. All I know is Iâ€™m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer whoâ€™s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I donâ€™t know, and I give up thinking about it.”
“My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.”
“If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.”
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
“It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.”
“I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, "Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.134
“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
“In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.”

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