"Criminalizing choices that adults make because we think they are unwise ones, when the choices involved have no negative effect on the rights of others, is not appropriate in a free society." – Barney Frank (2009) "The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients." – Edmund Burke (1899)
"The core divide in American politics now is not between liberals and conservatives, or between capitalists and socialists. It is between libertarians and communitarians." - E.J. Dionne, The Washington Post, May 19, 2003
"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen...." -President Dwight Eisenhower
“Where the government fears the people, there is Liberty. Where the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” - Benjamin Franklin
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight." Obviously Teddy didn’t have much of a “victim” mentality. - Teddy Roosevelt (1902)
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