Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-02-11 Feb 11, 2014If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government...~ Alexander HamiltonThere are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.~ Andrew JacksonThe internal effects of a mutable policy are [...] calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.~ James Madison 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print