Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-08-23 Aug 23, 2010[I]t is a truth which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger, when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.~ Alexander HamiltonEven today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.~ Friedrich NietzschePersecution readily knits friendship between its victims.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Aug 20, 2010[Some people] have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. I believe that it is easier to establish an absolute and despotic government amongst a people in which the conditions of society are equal, than amongst any other; and I think that, if such a government were once established amongst such a people, it would not only oppress men, but would eventually strip each of them of several of the highest qualities of humanity. Despotism, therefore, appears to me peculiarly to be dreaded in democratic times.~ Alexis de TocquevilleMost people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.~ Michael RiveroSocialism needs two legs on which to stand; a right and a left. While appearing to be in complete opposition to one another, they both march in the same direction.~ Paul Proctor Aug 19, 2010Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.~ Sir Winston ChurchillThose who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.~ Edmund BurkeHow strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!~ Samuel Adams Aug 18, 2010The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.~ Alexis de TocquevilleIn order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.~ Charles de GaulleThe urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.~ H. L. Mencken Aug 17, 2010Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.~ Alan BarthIf by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.~ Benjamin FranklinPrejudice is the child of ignorance.~ William Hazlitt Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print