Lysander Spooner Quotes

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

Lysander Spooner

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PowerGovernmentPeopleInjustice

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Jim Webb

LeadershipServiceMenViolenceMay

My being gay was something of not great interest to me.

Maurice Sendak

GreatMeGayInterestSomething

PepsiCo is the largest food-and-beverage company in the United States, and the second-largest in the world after Nestle. If PepsiCo were a country, the size of its economy - sixty billion dollars in revenues in 2010 - would put it sixty-sixth in gross national product, between Ecuador and Croatia.

John Seabrook

WorldCountryCompanyEconomySize

Just because you're married doesn't mean that you have to spend 24/7 together and can't have separate interests and hobbies. In a healthy relationship, you both understand - and respect - that you need time apart doing what you want to do.

John Rampton

RelationshipRespectTimeTogether

What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.

Stacey D'Erasmo

DayWrongDistanceNowFirstRight

I only learn from the people I work with.

Sissy Spacek

WorkPeopleLearnOnly

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

Mary-Louise Parker

LiveLos AngelesPressSuperfluous

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

Milla Jovovich

LoveRestDoingMoviesIndependent

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

Loretta Lynn

ChildKnowMadeBabiesHowUntil

If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.

Jon Bon Jovi

LifeTimeMistakeMeMy LifeYou

I was 17 or 18 when 'The Twist' came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.

Chubby Checker

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I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

Brad Paisley

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