Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-02-01 Feb 1, 2010A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.~ Abba EbanThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonAt the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.~ E. H. Chapin Jan 29, 2010Force and reason -- which last is the essence of the moral act -- are at the two opposite poles. The one who compels his neighbor... treats him, not as a being with reason, but as an animal in whom reason is not.~ Auberon HerbertThe things that are wrong with the country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as individuals.~ Charles W. TobeyThe intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.~ Eric Hoffer Jan 28, 2010It is the very essence of despotism that it can never afford to fail. This is what distinguishes it most vitally from democracy. In a despotism there is no organized opposition which can take over the power when the Administration in office has failed. All the eggs are in one basket. Everything is staked on one coterie of men. When the going is good, they move more quickly and efficiently than democracies, where the opposition has to be persuaded and conciliated. But when they lose, there are no reserves. There are no substitutes on the bench ready to go out on the field and carry the ball. That is why democracies with the habit of party government have outlived all other forms of government in the modern world. They have, as it were, at least two governments always at hand, and when one fails they have the other. They have diversified the risks of mortality, corruption, and stupidity which pervade all human affairs. They have remembered that the most beautifully impressive machine cannot run for very long unless there is available a complete supply of spare parts.~ Walter LippmannFailure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.~ Charles Francis AdamsA wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.~ Henry David Thoreau Jan 27, 2010Money for me has only one sound: liberty.~ Gabrielle ChanelThe world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.~ Julian SimonMoney is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty -- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.~ Remy de Gourmont Jan 26, 2010The Federal Reserve Bank is nothing but a banking fraud and an unlawful crime against civilization. Why? Because they "create" the money made out of nothing, and our Uncle Sap Government issues their "Federal Reserve Notes" and stamps our Government approval with NO obligation whatever from these Federal Reserve Banks, Individual Banks or National Banks, etc.~ H. L. Birum, Sr.The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.~ John Kenneth GalbraithNo scheme which has ever been devised by them has ever made a collapsed boom go up again.~ William Graham Sumner Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print