Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-08-12 Aug 12, 2009In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.~ Cornelius TacitusThe American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.~ Spiro AgnewThe general [federal] government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.~ Thomas Jefferson Aug 11, 2009Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.~ AesopHow did it happen? How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with virtually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the activities of government. But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. All too often we have put men in office who have suggested spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who have proposed a new welfare program, who have thought of another variety of 'security.' We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our constitutional system. We have gone the way of many a democratic society that has lost its freedom by persuading itself that if 'the people' rule, all is well.~ Barry GoldwaterNo man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.~ Theodore Roosevelt Aug 10, 2009The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth -- that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.~ H. L. MenckenThe history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.~ Mark TwainIf falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.~ Michel De Montaigne Aug 7, 2009Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.~ Dr. Jim BorenWhenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.~ Harry S. TrumanI believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.~ H. L. Mencken Aug 6, 2009For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonA man always has two reasons for what he does -- a good one, and the real one.~ J. P. MorganI once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'~ Oscar Levant Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print