#pre

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. ↗

— Joel Barlow

#destroys #discerning #disuse #forces #habitual

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#free #free economy #free-market #guy #how

If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#concept #defense #form #freedom #grasp

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#hath #him #his #man #preserved

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#administered #alleged #apprehend #between #cases

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so. ↗

— John Barry

#certainly #codes #federal #federal tax #law

I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#i #i do #interpretation #like #someone

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bigger #deal #great #great deal #i

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. ↗

— Chris Brasher

#must #olympics #preserved #something #soul

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

#cause #consequence #expression #health #productive