Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-02-05 Feb 5, 2019English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.~ James Anthony FroudeThoughts are free and are subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature.~ Philippus Aureolus ParacelsusYou are not what you think you are; What you think – you are.~ Red Pritchard Feb 4, 2019While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim -- or arrogation -- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.~ Thomas SowellIf I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.~ William Graham SumnerI tell you true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.~ William Wallace Feb 1, 2019They can only set free men free ... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.~ James OppenheimThe poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength; ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition. This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the latter. I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government, Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws, Rights, derived from the great Legislator of the universe.~ John AdamsThe 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.~ Justice Potter Stewart Jan 31, 2019The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.~ John Stuart MillThe True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.~ John Walter WaylandTis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Jan 30, 2019Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it we'd be at the mercy of monsters. It is about time that we understood that the U.S. government does more to endanger the American people than any imagined monsters around the world…by pursuing its Grand Foreign Policy of meddling anywhere and everywhere.~ Sheldon RichmanNot surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.~ Joseph SobranWe may safely rely on the disposition of the State legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority.~ Alexander Hamilton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print