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			There may be no candidates and measures you want to vote for... But there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.


-- Charles F. Kettering


			The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			If Columbus had waited for decent ships we'd all still be in Europe. A man has to take some chances or he'll never get anywhere.


-- Delos (DD) Harriman, The Man Who Sold The Moon


			Luck is a bonus that follows careful planning -- it's never free.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment: good, but not good enough to win.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.


-- Thomas Sowell


			People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.


-- Frederic Bastiat


			Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.


-- P.J. O'Rourke


			You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			The education of a man is never complete until he dies.


-- Robert E. Lee


			God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.


-- Daniel Webster


			When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.


-- Theodore Roosevelt


			The police are like parents. They're not really interested in justice. They simply want quiet.


-- L. Neil Smith


			If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.


-- Barry Goldwater


			Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.


-- Thomas Edison


			Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.


-- Napoleon Bonaparte.


			The Marine rule for a gunfight is 'Bring a gun. Bring two guns. If you have friends with guns bring them. If you have friends without guns, go get them some guns and bring them.'


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			Ideas are more powerful than guns. If we don't let our people have guns, why should we let them have ideas?


-- Josef Stalin


			Envy plus rhetoric equals social justice.


-- Thomas Sowell


			See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.


-- Dave Barry


			Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.


-- Woodrow Wilson


			The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


	Możesz poryszyć tysiącem ludzi odwołując się do ich uprzedzeń szybciej, niż przekonasz jednego człowieka logiką.	You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


	Sekretność jest fundamentem wszelkiej tyranii. Nie przemoc, ale sekretność... cenzura. Gdy jakikolwiek rząd, czy też kościół, postawi wobec swoich poddanych rządanie "tego nie możesz czytać, tegeo nie możesz widzieć, tego nie wolno ci wiedzieć", ostatecznym rezultatem jest tyrania i ucisk, nieważne jak święte deklarowano przy tym motywy.	Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


	Nie ma nic bardziej trwałego na tym świecie niż przejściowy stan zagrożenia.	There is nothing so permanent in this world as a temporary emergency.


-- Delos (DD) Harriman, The Man Who Sold The Moon


			The difference between Congress and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.


-- Florida Republican Rep. Tom Feene


			Remember, if two people agree on everything, one of them isn't necessary.


-- Neal Boortz


			Rule 208: Sometimes the only thing more dangerous than a question is an answer


-- Ferengi Rules of Acquisition


			My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.


-- Charles F. Kettering


	Sztuka polega na tym, aby zrobić coś szybko, ponieważ jeśli tego nie zrobisz, inni to zrobią.	The point is always to do something quickly, because if you don't, the other fellow will.


-- Theodore Roosevelt


			Now I know why there are so many people who enjoy chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees the results.


-- Albert Einstein


			When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.


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	Kot, który raz siądzie na gorącej płycie pieca, nigdy więcej już na takiej płycie nie siądzie; także nie siądzie on na zimnej płycie.	The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.


-- Mark Twain


			If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.


-- A Nation at Risk, 1983


			You know how dumb the average guy is? Well, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that.


-- George Carlin


			More battles have been won or lost by quartermasters than by any general staff.


-- Lois McMaster Bujold


			It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.


-- Benjamin Disraeli


			If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward then we are a sorry lot indeed.


-- Albert Einstein


			Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.


-- Thomas Jefferson


			Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.


-- Dennis Wholey


			Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.


-- C.S. Lewis


			Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.


-- Fletcher Knebel


			Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.


-- Sallust


			When people realize that things are going wrong, there are two questions they can ask. One is, 'What did we do wrong?' and the other is 'Who did this to us?'


-- Bernard Lewis


			There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws.


-- Ayn Rand


			The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.


-- Richard Feynman


			Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.


-- Mark Twain


			Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.


-- Silas Mitchell


			You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			It is clear that anyone working with rocket fuels is outstandingly mad. I don't mean garden-variety crazy or merely raving lunatic. I mean a record-shattering exponent of far-out insanity.


-- Isaac Asimov


			Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies... None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong. It is weakness... that invites adventurous adversaries to make mistaken judgments.


-- Ronald Reagan


	Jedyny powód dlaczego USA nie ma w swoich granichach Gestapo, to to że FBI BATF, DEA, EPA i CIA nie mówią po niemiecku.	The only reason the US doesn't have a Gestapo is that the FBI, BATF, DEA, EPA and CIA can't speak German.


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			Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.


-- Lyall Watson


	Jeśli wprowadzisz dziesięć tysięcy regulacji, zniszczysz wszelki respekt wobec prawa.	If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.


-- Winston Churchill


			High tax rates don't redistribute income; they redistribute people.


-- George Gilder


			A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.


-- Edward Abbey


			The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			The will to succeed is important, but the will to prepare is more important.


-- Bobby Knight


			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


			History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.


-- Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut


			The first and last battleground is the mind. All else is just maneuvering.


-- Lois McMaster Bujold


			If everything's under control, you're going too slow.


-- Mario Andretti


			History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells 'Why can't you remember anything I tell you?' and lets fly with a club.


-- John W. Campbell


			Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.


-- Theodore Roosevelt


			This should be a man's attitude: 'Few things will disturb him at all; nothing will disturb him much.'


-- Thomas Jefferson


			All those other constitutions are documents that say, 'We, the government, allow the people the following rights,' and our Constitution says 'We the People, allow the government the following privileges and rights.' We give our permission to government to do the things that it does. And that's the whole story of the difference -- why we're unique in the world and why no matter what our troubles may be, we're going to overcome.


-- Ronald Reagan


			What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.


-- L. Neil Smith


			It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.


-- Martin Luther King


			The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.


-- Theodore Roosevelt


			History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.


-- Abba Eban


			Civilizations fail not because of a single bad mistake, but because of a series of bad mistakes.


-- Walter Cronkite


			The dinosaurs are not around today because they did not have a space program.


-- Arthur C. Clarke


			Does history record any case in which the majority was right?


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditures twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.


-- Charles Dickens


			Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.


-- Fred Brooks


			Democracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.


-- U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932)


			The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.


-- Thomas Jefferson


			Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.


-- Henry Kissinger


			It is seldom that liberty of any kinds is lost all at once.


-- David Hume


			A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.


-- Mark Twain


			Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.


-- Albert Einstein


			The difference between death and taxes is: death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.


-- Will Rogers


			To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them.


-- George Mason


			Pound for pound, forget gold, forget diamonds. There is nothing more valuable on Earth than an inkjet cartridge."


-- Tricia Judge, Imaging Spectrum magazine


			You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.


-- Gen. George S. Patton


			Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc^2.


-- Michael Crichton


			The human race is divided into two classes -- those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?'


-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


			We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.


-- Thomas Sowell


			America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.


-- Claire Wolfe


			It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.


-- Teddy Roosevelt


			No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.


-- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder


			We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.


-- J. Robert Oppenheimer


			The quality of education in this country has gone down steadily since the formation of the Department of Education.


-- Neal Boortz


			Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.


-- James Bovard


			The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.


-- Albert Jay Nock


			We infinitely desire peace, and the surest way of obtaining it is to show that we are not afraid of war.


-- Theodore Roosevelt


			The answer to any question starting, 'Why don't they--' is almost always, 'Money.'


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			I have a basic rule about art. If I can duplicate it, it ain't art.


-- Neal Boortz


			The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.


-- Jacques Barzun


			The bane of our age is not intolerance, but a fuzzy-minded wishy-washy kind of tolerance based upon the notions that there's something good about everyone and deep down everyone is just like us. Well, there isn't, and they aren't.


-- Steve Stirling


			A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will wind up with neither.


-- Milton Friedman


			The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.


-- P.J. O'Rourke


			What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.


-- Tom Clancy


			An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.


-- Niels Bohr


			The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.


-- Thomas Jefferson.


			The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.


-- Alexander Fraser Tyler, The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic


			Life is not fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.


-- William Goldman


			All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.


-- IBM maintenance manual, 1925


			It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low -- and the soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut rates now.


-- John F. Kennedy


			A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.


-- Barry Goldwater


			The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.


-- John Stuart Mill


			Never give in -- never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.


-- Winston Churchill


			What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?


-- Thomas Jefferson


			One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.


-- Thomas B. Reed


			The greater the desire to perform humanitarian deeds through legislation, the greater the violence required to achieve it.


-- Ron Paul


			That's the beauty of this business. You don't have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			Psychologists once locked an ape in a room, for which they had arranged only four ways of escaping. Then they spied on him to see which of the four he would find. The ape escaped a fifth way.


-- Robert A. Heinlein


			Those who say that all cultures are equal never explain why the results of those cultures are so grossly unequal.


-- Thomas Sowell


			Wherever human beings acquired both plows and swords, gangs of large men picked up the latter and took other men's women and wheat.


-- David Brin


			Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.


-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


			One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.


-- Thomas Sowell

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