Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 175 Control quotesControl QuotesControl Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.~ Suzanna Gratia Hupp Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.~ Aldous Huxley Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.~ Aldous Huxley Mistrust the people and they become untrustworthy.~ I Ching Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.~ Thomas Jefferson A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.~ Thomas Jefferson No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.~ Thomas Jefferson Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.~ Jesus of Nazareth The issue isn't gun control but state control -- obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties.~ George Jonas Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.~ Don B. Kates, Jr. You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.~ Garrison Keillor I was put in this world to change it.~ Kathe Kollwitz The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.~ Charles Krauthammer Those who have sought the most in gun control have sought the least in the punishment of criminals.~ Robert J. Kukla Since independence in the fourteenth century, the Swiss have been required to keep and bear arms, and since 1515, have had a policy of armed neutrality. Its form of government is similar to the one set up by our Founders -- a weak central government exercising few, defined powers having to do mostly with external affairs and limited authority over internal matters at the canton (state) and local levels.~ Benedict D. LaRosa Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.~ C. S. Lewis Again, the new oligarchy must more and more base its claim to plan us on its claim to knowledge. If we are to be mothered, mother must know best. This means they must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists, till in the end the politicians proper become merely the scientists' puppets. Technocracy is the form to which a planned society must tend. Now I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside their special subjects. Let scientists tell us about sciences. But government involves questions about the good for man, and justice, and what things are worth having at what price; and on these a scientific training gives a man's opinion no added value. Let the doctor tell me I shall die unless I do so-and-so; but whether life is worth having on those terms is no more a question for him than for any other man.~ C. S. Lewis Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.~ Abraham Lincoln Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print