Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-11-09 Nov 9, 2010Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.~ Friedrich NietzscheContrary to the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership, they explained, is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property -- so long as the state reserves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.~ Leonard Peikoff[I]f we won’t choose to pay the price of liberty, then by default we shall suffer the cost of servitude -- whether it be the iron chains of a tyrannical oligarchy or the regulatory chains of unelected, faceless bureaucrats. When we witness our neighbors abused by tyrants, will we skulk away and hope we’re not next? Or will we stand by them and challenge -- as freedom-loving Americans -- the tyranny of lawless leaders.~ Phil Trieb Nov 8, 2010There are two kinds of statistics the kind you look up and the kind you make up.~ Rex StoutOn account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only people in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does.~ Will RogersThis thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.~ Will Rogers Nov 7, 2010No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.~ Judge Gideon J. Tucker Nov 5, 2010A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.~ Sigmund Freud Nov 4, 2010Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroThe right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government.~ Joyce Lee Malcolm Nov 3, 2010Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.~ PlatoGovernment isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.~ P. J. O'RourkeThose who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.~ Voltaire Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print