Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-08-06 Aug 6, 2013The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.~ Thomas I. EmersonThe only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.~ Tommy SmothersWithout some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.~ Walter Lippmann Aug 5, 2013If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.~ Justice William J. BrennanSticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.~ ProverbTake care that no one hates you justly.~ Publilius Syrus Aug 2, 2013Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality — you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possible the incurring of any new debt.~ Alexander HamiltonWe make money the old fashioned way. We print it.~ Art RolnickNo legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).~ Frederic Bastiat Aug 1, 2013Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality — you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possible the incurring of any new debt.~ Alexander HamiltonWe make money the old fashioned way. We print it.~ Art RolnickNo legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).~ Frederic Bastiat Jul 31, 2013Banks do not have an obligation to promote the public good.~ Alexander DieliusWith regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.~ James MadisonBankers have no right to establish a customary law among themselves, at the expence of other men.~ Sir Michael Foster Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print