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When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.
—Benjamin Franklin
War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is, revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
—Benjamine Franklin
Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.
—Norm Franz
Oppression isn't hearing a word that offends you. Oppression is being told you can't say certain words because you'll offend someone else.
—Morgan Freeman
The most expensive thing in the world is trust. It can take years to earn and seconds to lose.
—Morgan Freeman
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
—Morgan Freeman
We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
—Jacque Fresco
Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.
—Jacque Fresco
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
—Jacque Fresco
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
—Milton Friedman
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary government policy.
—Milton Friedman
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
—Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
—Robert Frost
The best way out is always through.
—Robert Frost
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
—Robert Frost
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
—Thomas Fuller
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
—Mahatma Gandhi
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or whole soul.
—Mahatma Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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