Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-05-18 May 18, 2012America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent.~ Claire WolfeThe American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also.~ David M. PotterThere is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.~ James Madison 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print