Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-03-02 Mar 2, 2015It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.~ Benjamin FranklinI care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.~ C. S. LewisIt is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.~ James Madison Feb 27, 2015National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.~ Adolf HitlerForce, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism -- the belief that the individual exists to serve others -- is translated into political reality.~ Nathaniel BrandenThe Nazis are well remembered for murdering well over 11 million people in the implementation of their slogan, 'The public good before the private good,' the Chinese Communists for murdering 62 million people in the implementation of theirs, 'Serve the people,' and the Soviet Communists for murdering more than 60 million people in the implementation of Karl Marx's slogan, 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.' Anyone who defends any of these, or any variation of them, on the grounds of their 'good intentions' is an immoral (NOT 'amoral') enabler of the ACTUAL (not just the proverbial) road to hell.~ Rick Gaber Feb 26, 2015As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another.~ James Madison Feb 25, 2015In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.~ Ambrose BierceDon't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.~ Ann LandersIf you look like a rabbit, and act like a rabbit, you will be treated like a rabbit -- prey for all predators.~ Stony Loft Feb 24, 2015Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.~ Henry David ThoreauBooks won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom.~ A. Whitney GriswoldThe only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men’s minds.~ Harold J. Laski Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print