Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-03-05 Mar 4, 2015Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.~ AesopOnce the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.~ Lawrence AusterIt is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.~ Sir Francis Bacon Mar 3, 2015Put no faith in salvation through the political order.~ Augustine of HippoLiberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.~ Berthold AuerbachTaxation with representation ain't so hot either.~ Gerald Barzan 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print