“What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. —is sure to be noticed.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Good government should maintain the balance where every individual may have a place if he will take it, where every individual may find safety if he wishes it, where every individual may attain such power as his ability permits, consistent with...”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

“You’ve a good heart . . . Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go . . . But mostly, it’s not.”

― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the 'rules of the game' and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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