Famous quotes containing the words united, self-defense, forces, initial and/or efforts:
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Murder begins where self-defense ends.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)
“Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.”
—Henry George (1839–1897)
“There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)