Defending reason one meme at a time.
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"It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws."
- Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
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"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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"To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind."
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."
- John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
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"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
- Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address
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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority."
- Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Benjamin Rush
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"Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence."
- Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address
"If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured."
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Archibald Stuart
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