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  1. It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights- the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That…
  2. Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and s…
  3. It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeb…
  4. I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to m…
  5. It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted…
  6. No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
  7. It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to brea…
  8. Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their c…

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