Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-05-05 May 5, 2010Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.~ John Maynard KeynesThe welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.~ Roger ScrutonGovernment can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.~ Thomas Jefferson May 4, 2010Put no faith in salvation through the political order.~ Augustine of HippoBut constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.~ Charles-Louis de SecondatTake nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.~ Charles Dickens May 3, 2010All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.~ Ellen GlasgowIf government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.~ Gerald GilderA constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.~ Thomas Paine Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print