#voluntarily

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#men #must #never #power #surrendered

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me. ↗

— Hans Frank

#american #army #arrested #destroy #diary

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#cooperate #discovered #essential #ever #free

Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#declared #dismantled #had #his #inspections

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#determining #endowed #his #man #own

We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#exist #fight #never #race #thick

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties. ↗

— Evo Morales

#checked #even #events #forced #i

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.' ↗

— Johann Most

#compels #day #every #every day #himself

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#bureau #disappear #earth #eternal #eternal life

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#being #big #cannot #effect #feels