Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-11-10 Nov 10, 2014What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.~ Joel MillerProhibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.~ Abraham LincolnMost of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.~ Isabel Paterson Nov 7, 2014Envy is the basis of Democracy.~ Bertrand RussellDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.~ E. B. WhiteThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.~ George Santayana Nov 6, 2014Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.~ John Kenneth GalbraithAn election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.~ George Bernard ShawThe reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.~ Thomas Sowell Nov 5, 2014I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.~ John F. KennedyThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonCompassion is the use of public funds to buy votes.~ Thomas Sowell Nov 4, 2014It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.~ Harry S. TrumanTo govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.~ Edmund BurkeNothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.~ Mark B. Cohen Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print