Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-07-03 Jul 3, 2019If the Constitution is adopted the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States of a Confederacy.~ Alexander HamiltonDon't forget that pure democracy is a form of collectivism -- it readily sacrifices individual rights to majority wishes. Since it involves no constitutional bill of rights, or at least, no working and effective one, the majority-of-the-moment can and does vote away the rights of the minority-of-the-moment, even of a single individual. This has been called 'mob rule,' the 'tyranny of the majority' and many other pejorative names. It is one of the greatest threats to liberty, the reason why America's founding fathers wrote so much so disparagingly of pure democracy.~ Bert RandIt's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.~ David Harris Jul 2, 2019Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. In a free society, the “rights” of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... A group, as such, has no rights.~ Ayn RandLiberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.~ Thomas Sowell Jul 1, 2019We feel that an American citizen of voting age and good character should have the right to purchase without restriction a handgun, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, or like item without interference by a government body.~ National Police Officers' Association of AmericaAll warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.~ Sun TzuThese, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution.~ Texas Declaration of Independence Jun 28, 2019Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.~ Baruch SpinozaSocialism is workable only in Heaven where it isn’t needed, and in Hell where they've got it.~ Cecil PalmerTrue education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.~ Felix Emmanuel Schelling Jun 27, 2019You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's FREE again.~ Aleksandr SolzhenitsynEconomic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureucrat's tool is fear.~ Ayn RandBeggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.~ Friedrich Nietzsche Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print