Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-01-24 Jan 24, 2012We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.~ Edwin FeulnerThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.~ Frederick DouglassAny man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.~ Henry David Thoreau Jan 23, 2012No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.~ Isaac RosenfeldThe quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable [...] There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court.~ Justice Janice BrownWhatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Jan 20, 2012If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.~ George OrwellDo you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.~ Girolamo SavonarolaWhen men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.~ Thomas Paine Jan 19, 2012Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money—only for wanting to keep your own money.~ Joseph SobranGovernment exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.~ Ronald ReaganWhat’s “just” has been debated for centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn “belongs” to you -- and why?~ Walter E. Williams Jan 18, 2012That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.~ Lysander SpoonerThose who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.~ Steve SymmsThe paternalist project for our civil courts runs something as follows. After the revolution -- which perhaps has already taken place—the average citizen will enjoy a vast array of wonderful new rights to sue other people. You will be empowered to haul your neighbors and fellow citizens to court if you feel they have fallen short of good faith and fair play. You will be entitled to sue them for unlimited damages, punitive as well as compensatory, even over behavior that had previously been thought not subject to liability at all. Everyone will be under a vague but stringent obligation to look out for your safety and welfare, enforceable by legal action. You will enjoy a cornucopia of contention opportunities, a smorgasbord of suing options, a Lotus-land of litigability.~ Walter Olsen Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print