Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-08-08 Aug 8, 2013The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities.~ Ayn RandSociety cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.~ Edmund BurkeWhen you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.~ Max Lerner Aug 7, 2013Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.~ John Stuart MillI will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.~ Michel de Montaigne'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.~ Thomas Fuller 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print