Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-05-07 May 7, 2010[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.~ Friedrich August von HayekThe defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.~ Henry BecqueDemocracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillotines whoever is individual, superior, or just different.~ Peter Viereck May 6, 2010Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is the same in all cases -- less government.~ Herbert SpencerI have always believed that government had a limited capacity to do good and a virtually infinite capacity to do harm...~ Neil HamiltonGovernment ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world?~ Thomas Paine 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