Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-10-10 Oct 10, 2017Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.~ Justice William O. DouglasPolitical liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.~ Lord HailshamIndeed, it was the enumeration of powers, not the enumeration of rights in the Bill of Rights, that was meant by the Framers to be the principal limitation on government power.~ Roger Pilon Oct 9, 2017The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.~ Baltasar GracianPolitics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.~ Auberon HerbertSell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.~ Benjamin Franklin Oct 6, 2017Justice without force is impotent, force without justice is tyranny. Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.~ Blaise PascalGoodness without wisdom always accomplished evil.~ Robert A. HeinleinCourage without conscience is a wild beast.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Oct 5, 2017[I]t is a truth which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger, when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.~ Alexander HamiltonFreedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.~ Eric HofferThe successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Oct 4, 2017Throughout the history of the United States, war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance.~ Bruce D. PorterWe recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.~ Justice William O. DouglasExperience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print