Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-05-17 May 17, 2012Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.~ Justice William O. DouglasAmong those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.~ Napoleon BonaparteThere is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.~ Alan K. Simpson May 16, 2012Politics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.~ Auberon HerbertNo man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.~ Benjamin FranklinUseless laws weaken necessary laws.~ Charles-Louis de Secondat May 15, 2012What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.~ Charles-Louis de SecondatIn order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.~ Charles de GaulleNothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.~ Mark B. Cohen May 14, 2012Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.~ Quintus Tullius CiceroOpposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.~ Ambrose BierceSo they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.~ Sir Winston Churchill May 11, 2012Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you.~ Albert Jay NockIdealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.~ Aldous HuxleyThose who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.~ Bertolt Brecht Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print