Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-02-06 Feb 6, 2020Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.~ Marcus Fabius QuintilianusO, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!~ Sir Walter ScottWhen they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'~ Theodore Roosevelt Feb 5, 2020Every bureaucrat has a constitutional right to fuzzify, profundify and drivelate. It's a part of our freedom of speech...If people can understand what is being said in Washington, they might want to take over their own government again.~ Dr. Jim BorenGovernment machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.~ John Maynard KeynesWhere the meaning of the Constitution is clear and unambiguous, there can be no resort to construction to attribute to the founders a purpose or intent not manifest in its letter.~ Norris v. Baltimore Feb 4, 2020Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.~ Charley ReeseUltimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature.~ John DerbyshireWithout general elections, without unrestrained freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution…in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.~ Rosa Luxemburg Feb 3, 2020The greatest danger is that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.~ Alexander HamiltonThere can be no crime, there can be no misdemeanor without a law written or unwritten, express or implied.~ Benjamin CurtisImpeachment is about whatever the Congress says it is. There is no law that dictates impeachment. What the Constitution says is “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and we define that.~ Maxine Waters Jan 31, 2020A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?~ Marcus Tullius CiceroThe task of government in this enlightened time does not extend to actually dealing with problems. Solving problems might put bureaucrats out of work. No, the task of government is to make it look as though problems have been solved, while continuing to keep the maximum number of consultants and bureaucrats employed dealing with them.~ Bob EmmersHell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.~ Milton Friedman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print