Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-01-16 Jan 16, 2019Confronted with such a tight regulation, can man pretend to be free because the tyranny he is subjected to derives from the law? Of course, the legal power is not called "tyranny" since it appears to be established by the general will in the common interest, and since, in any event, occurrences of arbitrary power are infrequent. But a master's equity does not mean that his subjects are not slaves. ... And when their servitude lasts and their thoughts follow their behavior, the state becomes totalitarian and subjection is complete. Since it is legal servitude, the regime is still said to be democratic. Such is the hypocrisy of political language.~ Georges RipertI don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.~ Robert BorkWe seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.~ Thomas Sowell Jan 15, 2019Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes.~ Thomas SowellThe American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.~ Alexis de TocquevilleWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things bought and sold are legislators.~ P. J. O'Rourke Jan 14, 2019The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.~ George Bernard ShawCollege isn't the place to go for ideas.~ Helen KellerGive me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Jan 11, 2019It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.~ Henry FordConsider compulsory school-attendance laws, for instance. They fill government schools with children who don't want to be there. Some students are violent, attacking -- and even killing -- teachers and other students. Teachers must lock their classrooms to keep hoodlums at bay in the hallways. Thus, compulsory attendance laws, alleged to promote education, can make it almost impossible.~ Marisa ManleyWhat is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the American people themselves through their own taxes. In other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and way of life by lavishly financing through federal and state grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and preparing our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world order.~ Samuel L. Blumenfeld Jan 10, 2019I think the world is run by 'C' students.~ Al McGuireAmong the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonWe shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print