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“Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.”

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Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn is a Canadian writer and columnist known for his sharp commentary on political, cultural, and social issues. His work often addresses conservative topics and has a wide readership around the world. more

“Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.”

Men Doe Earth Humanity Causes Loses Walks Greater Products Creatures Concern Caught Meaningful Wilderness Endeavor Reverence Caught Up Magnitude Wavelength

Author:William O. Douglas

“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

Honesty Sunlight

Author:William O. Douglas

“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.”

Source: POINTS OF REBELLION

“Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.”

Ifs Men Needs Able Week Conditions Civilization Primitive Refuge Retreat

Book:My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST

Source: My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST

“At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.”

Thinking Reason Decision Levels Emotional Percent Rational Supplies

Author:William O. Douglas

“It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.”

People Trying Court

Author:William O. Douglas

“The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.”

Individual Power Struggle Sacred Structure Obedience Conformity Suppression

Author:William O. Douglas

“The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.”

People Thinking Way Has Beens America Challenges Influence Institutions American Life Invigorating Unorthodox

Author:William O. Douglas

“Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.”

Government Suffering Rights Movement Essence Free Society Curfew

Author:William O. Douglas

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