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Common sense is not so common.
- Voltaire, 1764
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
- Voltaire, 1770
Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the refusal to see, ... the refusal to know.
- Ayn Rand
Truth or falsehood must be one's sole concern and sole criterion of judgment - not anyone's approval or disapproval.
- Ayn Rand
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
- Ayn Rand
There can be no compromise on basic principles.
- Ayn Rand
Americans are the most reality-oriented people on earth.
- Any
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the popular alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Menchen
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
- Charles Mackay
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the end the truth will conquer.
- John Wycliff, 1381
There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. [ ignorance in action]
- Goethe
It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
- Henry Kissinger
Fortune favors the brave.
- Virgil, c. 25 B.C.
I. (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic [ emphasis added]: that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same: and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
- Oath of Enlistment,
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
- Tolstoy, 1887
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
- Blaise Pascal
The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking
The media are less a window on reality than a stage on which officials and journalist perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
- Paul Waver, 1994
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear. We must get rid of fear; we cannot act at all till then. A Man's acts are slavish, not true but specious: his very thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward, till he have got fear under his feet.
- Thomas Carlyle, 1840
The international gold standard works without an action on the part of the government.
- Ludwig von Mise
The abhorrence of the gold standard is inspired by the superstition that omnipotent governments can create wealth out of little scraps of paper.
- Ludwig von Mises
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Evil deeds never prosper.
- Homer, Odyssey, c. 700 B.C.
He that [who] will not reason is a fool. He that will not a bigot. He that dare not a slave.
- On Andrew Carnegie Mellon's [Mellon] library mantel.
In the beginning of change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for it then costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Mark Twain
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
- Patrick Henry, 1775
History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
- Voltaire, 1767
History is but a set of lies agreed upon. (or similar)
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
- H. D. Thoreau, 1854
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- H. D. Thoreau, 1854
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
- Francis Bacon, 1623
Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, house, papers, and effect, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath of affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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All truth passes through three states.
First it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Civilized countries generally adopt old or silver or both as money.
- Alfred
I don't want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.
- John D. Rockefeller, oil magnate and founder of the National Education Board.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
We are dominated by the relative small number of persons ... who understand the mental process of social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
- Edward Bernays - Propaganda - 1928
One evil flows from another.
- Terence, 160 BC
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
- Francis Bacon, 1605
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
- Adolf Hitler
Fascism will come to
- Jim Garrison
One may not do evil that good may come of it.
- legal maxim
The fragility of the NIST report [on 9-11 WTC collapse] is astonishing. The report succeeded because a people accepted its assurances without examination.
- Paul Craig Roberts
The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominates by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complex files containing even the most personal information about the citizens.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder with David Rockefeller of the Trilateral Commission
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
- Francis Bacon, 1623
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell