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“But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts America Political Politics Challenges Wealth Risk Land Percent Serving Rebel Serving Others

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.”

“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!”

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.”

Firsts Political Politics Party Gentleman Distress Honorable Caves Retired Lowes

Author:John Bright

“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.”

Firsts Political Politics Liberty Duty Revolution Revolutionary Get Away Hippie

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.”

Firsts Politics Secret Lays Mischief Duplicity

Book:King Richard III

Source: King Richard III

“The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to see political correctness die in my lifetime, but first... I want to watch it suffer.”

Want Firsts Believe America Political Suffering Dies Politics Watches Teaching Lifetime Killing Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Brad Stine

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.”

Firsts Government Political Politics Easy Office Misery Honorable Splendid

Book:Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American

Source: Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American

“I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.”

Knows Firsts Politics Speak Window Passages Polish Bedtime

Author:Ed Koch

“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Motivational Political Politics Judging Planning Stubborn Future Plans Future Planning House Divided

Book:The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Source: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”

Men Firsts Politics Ambition Libertarian Secure

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.”

Firsts Long Running Games Politics Politician Beats Patience Intellect Long Runs Requirements Stamina Hares Tortoises

Author:John Major

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

Source: The Law

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”

Source: Parliament of Whores-Open Mark