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The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#democratic #democratic republic #freedom #german #million

One of the best legislative accomplishments I've had here on an international basis and on saving lives is the bill we did against human trafficking. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#against #basis #best #bill #did

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative. ↗

— Harry Browne

#important #important thing #initiative #own #thing

Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights. ↗

— Harry Browne

#american #american people #anything #apart #bill

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. ↗

— Harry Browne

#attract #avoid #because #earn #elements

I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#polygamy #rape #religion #faith

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#make #much #new #preceded #something

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#also #called #calling #central #central park

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#german people #holders #liberation #over #people

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#also #as far as #birthday #call #calling