Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-05-11 May 11, 2010Once 'our people' get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being 'our people'.~ M. Stanton Evans May 10, 2010The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.~ W. E. B. Du BoisLiberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.~ David Lloyd GeorgeWhen I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel ... for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.~ Thomas Paine 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print