Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-02-10 Feb 10, 2014[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right...~ Barack Hussein ObamaThe theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.~ Karl MarxWhen you sit down to negotiate on what you already have, you lose.~ Marie J. Parente Feb 7, 2014Most reporters are very sympathetic to gun-control agendas and will skew or lie outright about facts to promote them.~ Dennis CauchonOnce the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never again return to its original size.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.~ Robert A. Heinlein Feb 6, 2014Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve... But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn't belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish that law without delay ... No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic.~ Frederic BastiatAll bad precedents began as justifiable measures.~ Gaius Julius CaesarInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Feb 5, 2014Ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system – a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.~ Felix FrankfurterThere is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.~ Henry FieldingAn avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.~ Thomas Paine Feb 4, 2014Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion... In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.~ Henry Steele CommagerKnowledge is power.~ Sir Francis BaconHe is the freeman whom the truth makes free.~ William Cowper Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print