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"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.” Tacitus

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." Emerson

"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good?" Bastiat

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is contempt prior to investigation." H Spencer

"Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without." E Burke

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” Socrates