Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-02-17 Feb 17, 2020Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy.~ Abraham LincolnWe live in a world that has popularized Black people showing the same hate towards white people that people like Martin Luther King Jr. died fighting to overcome. It’s sad. Sad as hell.~ CJ PearsonArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness.~ George Washington Feb 14, 2020The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.~ Henry David ThoreauIn all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.~ Mary RenaultTherefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.~ St. Peter Feb 13, 2020I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.~ Daniel DefoeIf we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.~ Johann SigurjonssonReputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.~ Michael Iapoce Feb 12, 2020All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?~ Herbert Spencer[I]f we won’t choose to pay the price of liberty, then by default we shall suffer the cost of servitude -- whether it be the iron chains of a tyrannical oligarchy or the regulatory chains of unelected, faceless bureaucrats. When we witness our neighbors abused by tyrants, will we skulk away and hope we’re not next? Or will we stand by them and challenge -- as freedom-loving Americans -- the tyranny of lawless leaders.~ Phil TriebThe real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable.~ U. S. Privacy Study Commission Feb 11, 2020Free enterprise capitalism exists only when people in the private sector are free to pursue their own interests without direction from government. When politicians start passing laws to tell them what to do, or bureaucrats start issuing edicts to tell them what to do, it is no longer capitalism; it's fascism.~ Rick GaberThe welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.~ Roger ScrutonMan is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts.~ Ronald Reagan Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print