Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-10-12 Oct 12, 2017Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.~ Alistair CookeIt has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.~ Eric HofferBy giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Oct 11, 2017Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.~ B. H. Liddell HartEvery kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.~ Jesus of NazarethYou know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal.~ John De Armond 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print