Lysander Spooner Quotes

All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

Lysander Spooner

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Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

Joel Coen

StoryThinkUnderstandingTrueClear

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

Jeff Flake

CommitteeOutRequestJustMember

I've bleached my brows and things like that, but otherwise, I just let them be.

Stella Maxwell

ThingsJustLikeThemOtherwise

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

Steven Gerrard

DeserveOddsWhereAgainstUsWere

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

Tony McCoy

ComplacencyArroganceRacingYouUp

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Rose Wilder Lane

LifeBestDamnWayPoorThings

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Diane Ravitch

EducationPastIdeasAmericanBeen

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

Doris Roberts

WomenThinkSayAskEverything

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

Claude McKay

ManIndividualityFaithfulAnything

God bless all who serve or have served our country.

Chuck Norris

GodCountryBlessServeGod Bless

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

Archibald MacLeish

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When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.

Allen West

SimplePeopleImmigrationAmerican

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