Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 389 Usurpation quotesUsurpation QuotesUsurpation Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.~ Justice William J. Brennan A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.~ Harry Browne The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.~ Sir Thomas Browne No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.~ Tammy Bruce Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.~ Edmund Burke We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.~ Edmund Burke Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.~ Edmund Burke All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.~ Edmund Burke The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.~ Edmund Burke It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.~ Edmund Burke They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.~ Edmund Burke The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.~ Edmund Burke After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.~ William S. Burroughs Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.~ William S. Burroughs The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.~ George W. Bush I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want -- I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.~ George W. Bush I don’t give a goddamn. I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. ... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!~ George W. Bush A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house.... The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.~ Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr. All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.~ Gaius Julius Caesar Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print