Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-08-02 Aug 2, 2010Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.~ BuddhaThe whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.~ BuddhaThere are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.~ Buddha Jul 30, 2010O liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name! [Fr., O liberte! que de crimes on commet dans ton nom!]~ Madame Jeanne Marie Phlipon de La Platiere RolandBe assured that if this new provision [the 14th Amendment] be engrafted in the Constitution, it will, in time, change the entire structure and texture of our government, and sweep away all the guarantees of safety devised and provided by our patriotic Sires of the Revolution.~ Orville BrowningThe fault lies not with our technologies but with our systems.~ Roger Levian Jul 29, 2010Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.~ Walter Truett AndersonTruth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.~ Benjamin DisraeliLiberty is a slow fruit.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Jul 28, 2010It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control. [...] This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.~ Dr. Ron PaulMonetary policy today is guided by little more than government fiat -- by the calculations, often mistaken economic theories, and whims of central bankers or, even worse, politicians. Under such a regime, inflation of three or four percent annually has come to be viewed as a stellar monetary performance. However, under a more sound monetary system -- i.e., a gold standard -- such increases in the general price level would be seen as wildly inflationary.~ Raymond J. KeatingCultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens.~ Thomas Jefferson Jul 27, 2010Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.~ Lord ByronIn the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.~ Mark TwainYou can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.~ William Allen White Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print