Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-09-13 Sep 13, 2018What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.~ Abraham LincolnThe State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.~ Albert Jay NockThe house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.~ A. E. Housman Sep 12, 2018Those wearing Tolerance for a label, Call other views intolerable.~ Phyllis McGinleyWhat a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.~ Thomas JeffersonNo free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.~ Wendell Phillips Sep 11, 2018A true party-man hates and despises candour.~ Adam SmithI detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.~ HomerCensorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.~ Justice Potter Stewart Sep 10, 2018The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found.~ Miguel de Unamuno y JugoHypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.~ MolièreNeither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.~ Thomas Sowell Sep 7, 2018To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.~ Eric HofferFreedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.~ Germaine GreerThe state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.~ Hans Hermann Hoppe Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print