Lysander Spooner Quotes

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

Lysander Spooner

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The reason I grew so fast in the supermarket business, without help of the banks in those days, was through my vendors. I convinced my vendors, the companies I was doing business with, if I did more business, they would do more business.

John Catsimatidis

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Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

John McAfee

FearSometimesTurnThingsParanoid

I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work.

Matthew Vaughn

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I don't believe we need any more taxes. We need to curtail the size of government. That seems to be a common thread among a majority of Americans out there that understand that we have to limit the size and scope of our government.

Jeff Landry

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I want a big church wedding.

Sienna Miller

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I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I was shown off as a freak. My father encouraged me to be wordier than I was: he'd been a street orator at the time of Mosley, and his ideal primary concert speech was Henry V's speech before Harfleur.

Simon Schama

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I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.

Shuji Nakamura

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Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know.

Rita Ora

YouKnowAlwaysPrettyEvenWanted

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Lou Holtz

BetterYouLookHouseDownBurn

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

Jason Biggs

QualityThinkEndTableKindBring

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

Colm Meaney

LifeGoodRestEndDoingYou

When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.

Brandi Carlile

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