Harry Browne Quotes
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.
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The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
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John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
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The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
