Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-03-26 Mar 26, 2010If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.~ P. J. O'RourkeAnother defining feature of therapeutic ethos, then, is the growing tendency to define a range of human behaviors as diseases or pathologies.~ James L. NolanThe Care therefore of every man's Soul belongs unto himself, and is to be left unto himself. But what if he neglect the Care of his Soul? I answer, What if he neglects the Care of his Health, or of his Estate, which things are nearlier related to the Government of the Magistrate than the other? Will the magistrate provide by an express Law, That such an one shall not become poor or sick? Laws provide, as much as is possible, that the Goods and Health of Subjects be not injured by the Fraud and Violence of others; they do not guard them from the Negligence or Ill-husbandry of the Possessors themselves.~ John Locke Mar 25, 2010I have been reading a German book. We must draft a decree at once... Communal physical exercises. ... This is very important. The health of the nation depends on it.~ The Emperor of AzaniaAdolf Hitler's life style is simple. He never drinks alcohol and does not smoke.~ Heinrich HoffmannIn relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation’s moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting – all these will be used as a means to this end.~ Adolf Hitler Mar 24, 2010The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. ... Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potatoe as an article of food.~ Thomas JeffersonThe smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.~ Ayn RandNo one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one. ... Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of. ... And if he does know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate.~ C. P. Snow Mar 23, 2010Certain things we cannot accomplish… by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.~ A. Whitney GriswoldNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.~ Edmund BurkeThe function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.~ Immanuel Kant Mar 22, 2010Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.~ Daniel WebsterAuthority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain.~ Samuel ButlerThe great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.~ Adolf Hitler Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print