Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-01-05 Jan 5, 2016The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.~ Vance PackardWhy suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.~ Thomas JeffersonThe welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.~ Albert Camus Jan 4, 2016Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.~ Blaise PascalThe war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.~ Joseph Paul GoebbelsThe worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.~ Frederic Bastiat Jan 1, 2016These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.~ King SolomonMost of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.~ Robert FrostThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.~ Thomas Jefferson Dec 31, 2015The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.~ T. S. EliotThe War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'.~ Walter E. Williams Dec 30, 2015Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain.~ Samuel ButlerGiving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.~ P. J. O'RourkeAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.~ James Madison Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print