"The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good."

-- Milton Friedman

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“Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.”

Source : Orson Squire Fowler (1851). “Memory and Intellectual Improvement: Applied to Self-education and Juvenile Instruction”, p.115
“A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.”

Source : Grosjean v. American Press Co., 297 U.S. 233, (251), 1936.
“But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set. When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids.”

Source : Anne Frasier (2012). “Hush”, p.21, Theresa Weir
“Live tonight, cuz you can't take it with ya.”
“The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.”
“There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.”
“Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.”
“In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.”

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