Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 271 History quotesHistory QuotesHistory Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served.~ Milton Friedman The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.~ Erich Fromm To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.~ Buckminster Fuller 19 terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society.~ Rocco Galati If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.~ Carl Friedrich Gauss What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. ...Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.~ Elbridge Gerry Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.~ A. Bartlett Giamatti History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.~ Edward Gibbon A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.~ Jo Godwin I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.~ Hermann Goering And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse -- the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.~ Barry Goldwater I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.~ Nathan Hale Secret societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history...It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence...~ Manley P. Hall Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.~ Sir John Harington Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.~ Sydney J. Harris In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there; a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.~ B. H. Liddell Hart The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.~ B. H. Liddell Hart From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. ~ Friedrich August von Hayek Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print