Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-04-06 Apr 6, 2010Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.~ Jeremy BenthamThat is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are built up -- excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.~ C. S. LewisAt the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.~ Robert F. Kennedy Apr 5, 2010The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.~ Leo Nikolaevich TolstoiWhereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.~ Walter LippmannEnslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.~ William Lloyd Garrison Apr 2, 2010Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.~ Edmund BurkeThe liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.~ Herbert SpencerThere is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.~ John Adams Apr 1, 2010We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.~ Thomas JeffersonIf all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.~ John Stuart Mill[Natural rights are] moral claims to those spheres of action which are necessary for the welfare of the individual and the development of his personality.~ Miner Searle Bates Mar 31, 2010Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few.~ David HumeThe only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.~ Eugene McCarthySince people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in its capacity of umpire is unavoidable, What must be kept in mind is that the greatest injustice of all is done when the umpire forgets that he too is bound by the rules, and begins to make them as between contestants in behalf of his own prejudices.~ Felix Morley Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print