“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.”
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
