"Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2014). “The Politics of Prudence”, p.21, Open Road Media
“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”
“We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.”
“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”
“Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that.”

Source : Ruth Bell Graham (2007). “Footprints of a Pilgrim”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Whatever is popular deserves attention.”
“I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.”
“The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.”

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