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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
Mark Skousen
Success
Failure
World
Build
Pay
Defeat
Society
State
Complete
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Totally
Civilized
Civilized Society
Civilized World
Higher
Price
Voluntary
Failing
Greater
Ultimate
Represents
Tax
While
Taxation
Planned
Level
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
Plato
Love
God
Impossible
Imbalance
State
Hunger
Out
Almost
Like
Urge
Stamp
Lives
Need
Thirst
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
Joseph Goebbels
State
Absolute
Supervise
Opinion
Formation
Public
Public Opinion
Right
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith
Justice
Peace
Natural
Rest
Degree
Else
State
Carry
Administration
Easy
Brought
About
Highest
Highest Degree
Course
Opulence
Being
Little
Barbarism
Taxes
Lowest
Requisite
Tolerable
Things
What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.
Billy Graham
God
Me
Man
Soul
Matters
State
About
Sees
He
Concerned
How
Labels
Really
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
Frederic Bastiat
Live
State
Everyone
Forget
Expense
Wants
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Faith
Strength
Church
Men
Nation
Separation
State
Our
Church And State
Between
Supreme
Supreme Being
Call
Does
Source
Being
Conscience
The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.
Medgar Evers
Home
Better
Country
Nation
Else
State
Everyone
Has-Been
City
Total
Color
Better Place
He
Part
Since
Make
Been
His
Years
America
Going
Wants
Regardless
Place
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Race
Help
Here
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Good
You
Every
State
States
Ancient
Follow
Composite
Laws
Main
New
Well
Arms
Without
Inevitably
Where
Cannot
Foundations
Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Religion
Ideology
Islam
Live
State
Muslim
Democratic
Person
Modern
Against
Modernity
Social
Fulfill
Should
Requirements
Why
Thing
All oppression creates a state of war.
Simone de Beauvoir
War
Oppression
State
Creates
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Government
Best
Blessing
Evil
Stage
Every
Society
State
Intolerable
Worst
Even
Necessary
Necessary Evil
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Henry David Thoreau
Will
Free
Power
Own
State
Independent
Recognize
Higher
Individual
Never
Until
Him
Accordingly
Authority
Which
Really
Derived
Enlightened
Treats
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan Watts
Faith
Trust
State
Openness
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
Happiness
Achievement
Values
State
Proceeds
Which
Consciousness
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Benito Mussolini
Face
Mask
Building
Liberal
State
Scaffolding
Behind
Which
Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.
James Comey
Government
Strength
Democracy
Confidence
Heart
Corruption
State
Local
Criminal
Our
Strikes
Top
Threat
Involves
Undermining
Priority
Contracted
Officials
Which
Public
Elected
Appointed
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.
Joseph Pulitzer
Democracy
Matter
National
State
Way
One-Way
About
Only
Only One Way
Individual
Feet
Conduct
Get
Going
Informed
Public
Social
Keeping
Municipal
I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
State
Recognise
Idiots
Israeli
Israelis
Cannot
Either
Palestinian
Palestinian State
Palestinians
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Vladimir Lenin
Freedom
Will
State
Exists
While
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov
Mind
Before
Complacency
State
Only
Shattered
Retrospective
Exists
Being
Ascertained
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Relationship
Independence
State
Reliance
Inverse
Between
Self-Reliance
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
Man
Mind
Power
State
Say
Exactly
Finds
Exactly What
Determined
Only
He
Know
Until
Knows
Becomes
Exists
Quit
Wants
Cannot
Which
Available
Fully
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Baruch Spinoza
Good
Natural
State
Bad
Civil
Only
Sin
Conceived
Common
Where
Cannot
Natural State
Consent
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Benito Mussolini
Unity
State
Virtue
Citizens
Civic
Gives
Mission
Educates
Which
Them
Consciousness
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
Friedrich Engels
Class
Nothing
State
Democratic
Instrument
Democratic Republic
Another
Than
Republic
Less
Monarchy
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