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Death before dishonor.

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"He who builds in his heart altars to superstition was born to worship idols and not to appreciate virtue."

-LaMettrie, Machine Man

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"Accept, as your moral ideal, the task of becoming a man...Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible- that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error... I swear--by my life and my love of it--that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine;"

-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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[urinates in the Rhine]

-General George S. Patton, circa 1944

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"Viewed in the light of the terminology favored by leading political scientists, it seems that monarchs such as Louis XIV, Joseph II, or George III were genuine liberals-by modern standards. None of them could have issued a decree drafting male subjects into his army, nor a decree regulating the diet of his citizens, nor one demanding a general confession of all economic activities from the head of each household. Not until the democratic age were conscription, Prohibition, and income tax declarations made into law by the people's representatives, who have far greater power than absolute monarchs ever dreamed of; they operate under the auspices of the magic democratic formula: We are the people, and the people-that's us."

-Erich von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited

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"Arabic philosophy is not important as original thought. Men like Avicenna and Averroes are essentially commentators. Speaking generally, the views of the more scientific philosophers come from Aristotle and the Neoplatonists in logic and metaphysics, from Galen in medicine, from Greek and Indian sources in mathematics and astronomy, and among mystics religious philosophy has also an admixture of old Persian beliefs. Writers in Arabic showed some originality in mathematics and in chemistry; in the latter case, as an incidental result of alchemical researches. Mohammedan civilization in its great days was admirable in the arts and in many technical ways, but it showed no capacity for independent speculation in theoretical matters. Its importance, which must not be underrated, is as a transmitter. Between ancient and modern European civilization, the dark ages intervened. The Mohammedans and the Byzantines, while lacking the intellectual energy required for innovation, preserved the apparatus of civilization books, and learned leisure. Both stimulated the West when it emerged from barbarism; the Mohammedans chiefly in the thirteenth century, the Byzantines chiefly in the fifteenth. In each case the stimulus produced new thought better than and produced by the transmitters in the one case scholasticism, in the other the Renaissance (which however had other causes also)."

-Lord Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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"It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."

-Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, Sergeant, USMC

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