Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-10-13 Oct 13, 2010One evening, when I was yet in my nurse’s arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said 'Let him touch it.' So I touched it -- and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.~ John RuskinThose who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.~ ProverbA nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.~ Sir Winston Churchill Oct 12, 2010I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.~ Lord ActonThe highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayPower never takes a back step -- only in the face of more power.~ Malcolm X Oct 11, 2010It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.~ David BrinIt is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.~ AeschylusCompelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.~ Justice Hugo L. Black Oct 8, 2010A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.~ G. Gordon LiddyMost people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.~ Sigmund FreudYou can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.~ P. J. O'Rourke Oct 7, 2010Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldn't be allowed to vote. The idea that there is some public benefit in ignoramuses and morons pulling levers next to names on a ballot is one of the evil myths of post-modern America. The purpose of voting, in our country, is to select men and women with the competence and integrity to operate the mechanics of government fixed by our Constitution. For this process to have any public benefit requires that the choices be made on an intelligent, knowledgeable and reasoned basis.~ Charley ReeseA 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 PaineGood and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.~ C. S. Lewis Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print