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Quote by Herbert Spencer
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet i

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. – Herbert Spencer

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The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is – a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. – Herbert Spencer

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Watching President Obama apologize last week for Americas arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans – helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. – Rick Santorum

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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they dont like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, dont expect freedom to survive very long. – Thomas Sowell

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Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we dont do everything we might please – we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility. – Tammy Bruce

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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. – Wendell Willkie

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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

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