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* All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
 
* All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
 
*: ~ anonymous, inspired by and often [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Misattributed misattributed to Edmund Burke]
 
*: ~ anonymous, inspired by and often [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Misattributed misattributed to Edmund Burke]
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* Dictatorship naturally arises out of a democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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*: ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Plato Plato], [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Plato#%22Dictatorship_naturally_arises_out_of_a_democracy,_and_the_most_aggravated_form_of_tyranny_and_slavery_out_of_the_most_extreme_liberty.%22 unverified]
  
  
 
* Guilt loves company more than misery.
 
* Guilt loves company more than misery.
 
*: ~ [[Raymond Potvin]], Windsorite
 
*: ~ [[Raymond Potvin]], Windsorite
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* I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
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*: ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata Emiliano Zapata]
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* I used to imagine that in a tyranny people were united against the oppressors, but now I realize that tyranny turns people against one another, making some glad or even ecstatic to witness the excessive punishment of those they've been taught to hate.
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*: ~ [[Janice Fiamengo]], University of Ottawa professor
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*:: ''[https://www.youtube.com/live/6hpuu6eaRys?si=m8GCOXV5fXbEXTLf&t=3306 Liberty in Peril - Canada is the Canary in the Coal Mine] (2:12:33) ~ [[Clyde Do Something]], 2024-09-27
  
  
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* Necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is the mother of necessity.
 
* Necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is the mother of necessity.
 
*: ~ [[Raymond Potvin]], Windsorite
 
*: ~ [[Raymond Potvin]], Windsorite
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* The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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*: ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Plato Plato], [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Plato#%22The_measure_of_a_man_is_what_he_does_with_power.%22 unverified]
  
  
 
* There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are '''"going to"''' do something and those who actually '''do it'''.
 
* There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are '''"going to"''' do something and those who actually '''do it'''.
 
*: ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell Thomas Sowell]
 
*: ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell Thomas Sowell]
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* When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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*: ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/P._J._O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke]
  
  
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* [[Recommended books]]
 
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== External links ==
 
== External links ==

Latest revision as of 10:33, 9 October 2024

" I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. " ~ Frederick Douglass
" It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. "
" Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. " ~ Pablo Picasso
" There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it. "
~ Thomas Sowell
" Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. "
~ Benjamin Franklin
"You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing."
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  • Dictatorship naturally arises out of a democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
    ~ Plato, unverified







  • It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.


  • Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
    ~ Pablo Picasso


  • Necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is the mother of necessity.
    ~ Raymond Potvin, Windsorite



  • There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it.
    ~ Thomas Sowell


  • When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
    ~ P. J. O'Rourke


  • Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
    ~ Benjamin Franklin


  • You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing.


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