Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-05-20 May 20, 2015Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.~ Rudolph J. RummelShall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. ~ Abraham LincolnThe shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.~ Aesop May 19, 2015If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.~ AristotleA community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.~ Henrik IbsenGovernment cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.~ Justice Clarence Thomas May 18, 2015The aim of art, the aim of a life, can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.~ Albert CamusI heartily accept the motto, that government is best which governs least ... Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, that government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.~ Henry David ThoreauThe Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.~ Justice William O. Douglas May 15, 2015All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.~ Friedrich August von HayekGovernment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.~ H. L. MenckenThe worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.~ John Stuart Mill May 14, 2015But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.~ Alan WattsMake yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.~ Benjamin FranklinThere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.~ Henry David Thoreau Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print