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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
—Maximilien Robespierre
You don't pay taxes, they take taxes.
—Chris Rock
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
—Adrian Rogers
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
—Adrian Rogers
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, is about the end of any nation.
—Adrian Rogers
The same wind blows on us all. The difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind, but the set of the sail.
—Jim Rohn
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
—Jim Rohn
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
—Jim Rohn
No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
—Henry Rollins
Ah…don't worry, boss. If anything's gonna happen it's gonna happen out there.
—Captain Ron
Believe you can and you are halfway there.
—Theodore Roosevelt
To reach a port we must set sail. Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear–mongering to dupe average people into accepting–or even demanding–their own enslavement.
—Larken Rose
Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.
—Robert N. Rose
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.
—John Rousmaniere
Just because you're passionate about something doesn't mean you won't suck at it.
—Mike Rowe
Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
—J. K. Rowling
You can beat forty scholars with one fact, but you can't beat one idiot with forty facts.
—Muḥammad Rumi
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns –the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
—Donald Rumsfeld
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
—Salman Rushdie
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