Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-01-27 Jan 27, 2020The threat of people acting in their own enlightened and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians and social workers as ominous and dangerous.~ W. G. HillWhatever power you give politicians and bureaucrats to use against other people will eventually be used by future politicians and bureaucrats against you.~ Michael BoldinIt is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.~ H. L. Mencken Jan 24, 2020I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself. … Communism is the goal.~ Roger BaldwinThe Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.~ Roger ShermanThe art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.~ Ulysses S. Grant Jan 23, 2020The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.~ Cesare BeccariaOur ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time... The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced... The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of handguns and all handgun ammunition -- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal.~ Nelson ShieldsGovernment is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.~ Richard M. Ebeling Jan 22, 2020And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.~ Alexander HamiltonIf vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.~ Algernon SidneyWe recognize, as appellants urge, the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by the judge, and contrary to the evidence. This is a power that must exist as long as we adhere to the general verdict in criminal cases, for the courts cannot search the minds of the jurors to find the basis upon which they judge. If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused, is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic of passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision.~ U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Maryland Jan 21, 2020Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.~ John AdamsThe great object is, that every man be armed.~ Patrick HenryAn armed society is a polite society.~ Robert A. Heinlein Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print