Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-09-18 Sep 18, 2014Collectivism is a form of anthropomorphism. It attempts to see a group of individuals as having a single identity similar to a person. ... Collectivism demands that the group be more important than the individual. It requires the individual to sacrifice himself for the alleged good of the group.~ Jeff LandauerThe policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism ...~ Nathaniel BrandenA man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Sep 17, 2014Today, The Daily Telegraph starts its 'A Free Country' campaign. Week by week, and in major individual investigations, we shall examine how freedom is being taken away, whether by Westminster or Whitehall or Brussels or any other authority. We shall try to annoy the control freaks, whether they are Right, Left or Centre, and we shall welcome allies for freedom from all quarters. The Conservative leadership contestants hardly breathe a word about freedom. The Labour Government's Queen's Speech is a shopping list of attacks on our liberties. There's plenty to do. Libertad o muerte!~ Daily TelegraphIndividuality is freedom lived.~ John Dos PassosThe heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights…This implies a belief in the equality of man in one sense; in their inequality in another.~ Milton Friedman Sep 16, 2014Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. ... Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person’s property to give it to another to whom it does not belong -- in effect, legalized theft.~ Walter E. Williams Sep 15, 2014Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.~ Ambrose BierceThe Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonIf you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.~ Joseph Sobran Sep 12, 2014Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAs long as you live, keep learning how to live.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaOne of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.~ O. A. Battista Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print