- Feed http://quotationsbook.com Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[There is no education like adversity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11885/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11885/ <![CDATA[Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20884/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20884/ <![CDATA[Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approximately half the eligible voters vote this means that approximately 75% of the people are ruled by 25% of the people.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20880/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20880/ <![CDATA[Inflation is determined by money supply growth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20869/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20869/ <![CDATA[The family is the nucleus of civilization.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14262/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14262/ <![CDATA[Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13591/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13591/ <![CDATA[Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39971/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39971/ <![CDATA[Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42112/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42112/ <![CDATA[The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11728/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11728/ <![CDATA[I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40516/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40516/