Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-10-03 Oct 3, 2018The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.~ Ted StevensWe all know our duty better than we discharge it.~ John RandolphWhile it would be silly and ungracious to insist that intelligent deliberation on public issues is nowhere found in modern communities, it would be naive to imagine that wise deliberation can survive the constant pounding from self-interested political behavior. Benevolence in public institutions has a short half-life no matter how noble its original intentions." and "Once [a] program is in place, its day-to-day administration falls into the hands of a professional cadre besieged by powerful interest groups whose influence grows as public interest wanes. . . . A slow process of disintegration and reconfiguration sets in, transforming and expanding a program from within.~ Richard A. Epstein Oct 2, 2018The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.~ Frank HerbertIf I resign any time this year, he [President Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. ... [A]nybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they’re misguided.~ Ruth Bader GinsburgCauses that live by politics, die by politics.~ Steven F. Hayward Oct 1, 2018The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as "free education" is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.~ Frank ChodorovAs long as the law may be diverted from its true purpose -- that it may violate property instead of protecting it -- then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting to gain access to the legislature as well as fighting within it.~ Frederic BastiatAny one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Sep 28, 2018You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.~ AristophanesWhat orators lack in depth they make up for in length.~ Charles-Louis de SecondatPolitics is made up largely of irrelevancies.~ Dalton Camp Sep 27, 2018The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites.'~ Larry HardimanTreason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.~ Sir John HaringtonIf a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.~ Anatole France Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print