Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-07-24 Jul 24, 2012By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.~ Adam SmithThe work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.~ Igor SikorskyThe problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jul 23, 2012Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaI will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.~ John Enoch PowellHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.~ Baruch Spinoza Jul 20, 2012By a Declaration, Liberty is born. With Courage she is nourished, and with unceasing Commitment she is guarded.~ Eric SchaubFor liberalism, the individual is the end, and society the means. For fascism, society is the end, individuals the means, and its whole life consists in using individuals as instruments for its social ends.~ Alfredo RoccoA man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.~ Sir Walter Raleigh Jul 19, 2012The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.~ Dr. Laura SchlessingerBecause we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state, whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us.~ Butler D. ShafferWe have plenty of freedom in this country but not a great deal of independence.~ John W. Raper Jul 18, 2012The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: `I, the state, am the people.'... Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth. ~ Friedrich NietzscheThe state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.~ H. L. MenckenIf Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed.~ Michael Parenti Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print