#cons

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#constant #effect #enlightenment #facts #freedom

I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction. ↗

— Charlie Crist

#conservative #continues #direction #florida #i

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitute #constructive #did #direction #federalism

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitution #hardly #importance #inferior #jefferson

A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#constitution #corollary #federal #highest #land

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#bear #beast #begets #come #constitutes

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#every #question #touchstone

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together. ↗

— Ted Cruz

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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#been #conservative #fighters #greater #hungry