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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. | ||
| + | *: ~ [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. | ||
| + | *: ~ [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. | ||
| + | *: ~ [[Janice Fiamengo]], University of Ottawa professor | ||
| + | *:: ''[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. | ||
| + | *: ~ [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. | ||
| + | *: ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/P._J._O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke] | ||
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* [[Recommended books]] | * [[Recommended books]] | ||
* [[Terminology]] | * [[Terminology]] | ||
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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
" 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
~ Thomas Sowell
" Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. "
~ Benjamin Franklin
~ Benjamin Franklin
- This article is a stub requiring expansion.
- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
- ~ anonymous, inspired by and often misattributed to Edmund Burke
- Dictatorship naturally arises out of a democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
- ~ Plato, unverified
- Guilt loves company more than misery.
- ~ Raymond Potvin, Windsorite
- I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
- 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.
- ~ Janice Fiamengo, University of Ottawa professor
- Liberty in Peril - Canada is the Canary in the Coal Mine (2:12:33) ~ Clyde Do Something, 2024-09-27
- ~ Janice Fiamengo, University of Ottawa professor
- I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
- ~ Frederick Douglass, lecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement (1855)
- If I can't dance, I won't be part of your revolution.
- ~ anonymous, inspired by and often misattributed to Emma Goldmann
- 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.
- Necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is the mother of necessity.
- ~ Raymond Potvin, Windsorite
- The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- ~ Plato, unverified
- There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it.
- When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
- You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing.
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