Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-04-10 Apr 10, 2020Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves upon the ruin of this Country.~ Samuel AdamsA false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.~ Georg CantorThe control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.~ Hilaire Belloc Apr 9, 2020Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.~ William Pitt'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.~ C. S. LewisThe tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.~ Edmund Burke Apr 8, 2020The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.~ William Henry HarrisonNip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.~ John AdamsAnd remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.~ Lord Acton Apr 7, 2020To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.~ James Bovard... absolutely we see this as an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and how we govern.~ Gavin NewsomThis is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.~ James Clyburn Apr 6, 2020Besides, he who follows another not only discovers nothing but is not even investigating.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaLoyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.~ Mark Twain Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print