Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-01-18 Jan 18, 2017It was not the tycoons of big business, it was not the working classes, it was the intellectuals who reversed the trend toward political freedom and revived the doctrines of the absolute State, of totalitarian government rule, of the government's right to control the lives of the citizens in any manner it pleases. This time, it was not in the name of the "divine right of kings," but in the name of the divine right of the masses. The basic principle was the same: the right to enforce at the point of a gun the moral doctrines of whoever happens to seize control of the machinery of government.~ Ayn RandThe eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.~ James MadisonThe economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.~ Thomas Sowell Jan 17, 2017Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.~ Sir Winston ChurchillLaws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.~ Thomas JeffersonThe President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the land and naval forces, as first general and admiral ... while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies -- all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature.~ Alexander Hamilton Jan 16, 2017Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.~ J. C. Watts, Jr.If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because you're likely to win?~ Michael BadnarikNot being able to govern events, I govern myself.~ Michel de Montaigne Jan 13, 2017Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise; to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them.~ VoltaireWhenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.~ Wendell L. WillkieA people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.~ William O. Douglas Jan 12, 2017The cruelest lies are often told in silence.~ Robert Louis StevensonIt is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.~ VoltaireIf honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.~ William D. Arnot Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print