Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-10-01 Oct 1, 2004The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.~ Friedrich August von HayekPolitical scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.~ Rudolph J. RummelThe trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.~ Thomas Paine Sep 30, 2004The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.~ Daniel WebsterThe dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.~ Franklin PierceThe possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.~ George D. Herron Sep 29, 2004The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.~ General Douglas MacArthurThe concentrating [of powers] in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.~ Thomas JeffersonLiberty requires restraints on popularly-elected leaders, as well as from minorities, so that the individual is protected from undue and arbitrary coercion by the state. These restraints are provided by a plurality of more or less equal and independent groups which check and balance one another's power.~ William Kornhauser Sep 28, 2004Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed.~ James WilsonI cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonPolitical liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.~ Lord Hailsham Sep 27, 2004But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.~ Declaration of IndependenceFreedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.~ Germaine GreerThe people must fight for their laws as for their walls.~ Heraclitus Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print