A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.


Paul Valery

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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem...
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Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...
RON PAUL
Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fiel...
PAUL DAVIES
The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
RAND PAUL
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...
RAND PAUL
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tr...
PAUL FEIG
I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.
PAUL DANO
Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
PAUL HARRIS
Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with B...
PAUL GIAMATTI
Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. wi...
RAND PAUL
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared...
PAUL JOHNSON
Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in sm...
PAUL HAWKEN
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American...
RAND PAUL
I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel ...
PAUL ENGLE
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx...
PAUL FARMER