Quotes and Conundrums


"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Abraham Lincoln


"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."

Justice Louis Brandeis


"All government is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man."

H.L. Mencken


"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."

Leo Tolstoy


"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

Mark Twain


"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

Aldous Huxley


"For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever."

Laura Swenson



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