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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. The Friends of Voltaire.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Beyond the Horizon, 1942.

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.

You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.