Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-04-14 Apr 14, 2020The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.~ Sir Thomas BrowneThere are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.~ Benjamin DisraeliHistorians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.~ Reuven Brenner Apr 13, 2020Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute.~ Lord ActonAuthority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.~ Anne BradstreetUsurpation, the exercise of power not granted, is not legitimized by repetition.~ Raoul Berger 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print