Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-11-12 Nov 12, 2014The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles-Louis De SecondatThe error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. ... Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potatoe as an article of food.~ Thomas JeffersonWhen they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet.~ Lyle Myhr Nov 11, 2014When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.~ Mae WestTo forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.~ Michel De MontaigneIf the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.~ Terence McKenna 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print