Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-09-25 Sep 25, 2017[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money, and all means whereby they resist his power.~ Sir Walter RaleighIf an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?~ Tom G. PalmerUnlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.~ William Pitt, Sr. Sep 22, 2017Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.~ Denis DiderotThe man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.~ Elbert HubbardAbsolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.~ Eric Hoffer Sep 21, 2017Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.~ Benjamin DisraeliIt’s never more important to move slowly and carefully before granting the state new powers than in the wake of tragedies.~ Brian DohertyGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.~ Buckminster Fuller Sep 20, 2017An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.~ Thomas JeffersonThe love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.~ William HazlittTrue liberty cannot exist apart from the full rights of property, for property is the only crystallized form of free faculties...The whole meaning of socialism is a systematic glorification of force... No literary phrases about social organisms are potent enough to evaporate the individual, who is the prime, indispensable, irreducible element.~ Auberon Herbert Sep 19, 2017Do not expect justice where might is right.~ PlatoViolence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.~ Robert A. HeinleinFreedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people -- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.~ Thomas Sowell Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print