Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-07-20 Jul 20, 2010Big Governments make for small citizens.~ James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald KennedyThe nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society.~ John AdamsWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things bought and sold are legislators.~ P. J. O'Rourke Jul 19, 2010The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic.~ Ezra PoundHeterodox doctrines, in economics and elsewhere, often fail to get adequately discussed in their formative stages: both the intellectual and the political establishment tend to regard them as unworthy of notice. Meanwhile, those doctrines can seem compelling to large numbers of people (some of whom may have considerable political clout, large financial resources, or both). By the time it becomes apparent that such influential ideas demand serious attention after all, reasoned argument has become very difficult. People have become invested emotionally, politically, and financially in the doctrine; careers and even institutions have been built on it; and the proponents can no longer allow themselves to contemplate the possibility that they have taken a wrong turning.~ Paul KrugmanNothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.~ Warren Buffett Jul 16, 2010Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.~ Alphonse de LamartineO freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name!~ Daniel GeorgeA free society can exist only when public spirit is balanced by an equal inclination of men to mind their own business.~ Edward A. Shils Jul 15, 2010The only vice that can not be forgiven is hypocrisy.~ William HazlittHypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.~ MolièreHad the states been despoiled of their sovereignty by the generality of the preamble, and had the Federal Government been endowed with whatever they should judge to be instrumental towards the union, justice, tranquility, common defence, general welfare, and the preservation of liberty, nothing could have been more frivolous than an enumeration of powers.~ Virginia’s General Assembly Jul 14, 2010The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?~ Emma GoldmanNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.~ Margaret MeadIntellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.~ Mikhail A. Bakunin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print