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Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1080 (1896) (Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Holmes dissenting).
- Economics
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)
An Anarchist is one who minds his own business.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Better Part (1901)
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963“Words and Behaviour”, The Olive Tree (1936)
- Morality
The Declaration of Independence is the grandest, the bravest, and the profoundest political document that was ever signed by the representatives of a people.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899Centennial Oration (4 July 1876)
- America
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
I will now confess my own utopia. I devoutly believe in the reign of peace and in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium.
William James1842–1910The Moral Equivalent of War (1906)
- War & Peace
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations⁠—entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address (1801)
- Government
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Marquis de la Fayette (November 4, 1823); in: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition (ME) (Lipscomb and Bergh, editors), 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., 1903-04, Volume 15, page 491
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to James Madison (30 January 1787); referring to Shays’ Rebellion Lipscomb & Bergh ed. 6:65
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Elias Shipman and others of New Haven (12 July 1801)
I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Plumer (21 July 1816)
- Economics
- Government
I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
Caitlyn Jennerborn 1949Speech at the University of Pennsylvania (February 2016).
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Homily at Radom, Poland (4 June 1991)
- Abortion