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Quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca about life and wasting timeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it." Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Quote on complacency and life by Benjamin E. MaysCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities." Benjamin E. Mays
Walter Lippmann quote about the Bill of Rights, inalienable rights, and governmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively." Walter Lippmann
Quote image featuring Walter Lippmann on the importance of a free pressCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting." Walter Lippmann
Harry Browne quote about asset forfeiture and civil rightsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken." Harry Browne
Murray Rothbard quote about the Federal Reserve, systemic inflation, and control of the American monetary systemCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were fastened upon America, it is time to see precisely how the Fed, as presently constituted, carries out its systemic inflation and its control of the American monetary system." Murray Rothbard
Harry Browne quote about insurance and protecting against extraordinary risksCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as protection in case you have a terrible accident or your car is stolen. You don't use homeowners' insurance to pay your electricity and water bills; you have it as protection in case a fire or other catastrophic event produces a large expense. Obviously, any insurance policy that promises to cover every small, ordinary expense is going to be much more expensive than one that covers only extraordinary expenses." Harry Browne
Quote image featuring Chris Hedges on corporations, capitalism, exploitation, and the common goodCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power." Chris Hedges
Murray Rothbard quote about economics and uncertaintyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models." Murray Rothbard
Harry Browne quote about government, poverty, and moralityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other." Harry Browne