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The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month.

The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

What good shall I do this day?

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.