Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-04-17 Apr 17, 2020Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.~ P. J. O'RourkeIt has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.~ James MadisonThere is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.~ John Adams Apr 16, 2020Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.~ Edmund BurkeThe great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.~ Edmund BurkeThe greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.~ Edmund Burke Apr 15, 2020Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.~ Lord ChesterfieldThe great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.~ Murray N. RothbardAn anarchist is anyone who doesn't need a cop to tell him what to do.~ Ammon Hennacy 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print