Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-04-21 Apr 21, 2020The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.~ Edward BernaysDogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.~ Felix AdlerThere 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 20, 2020The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.~ Josiah WarrenPeople crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous...~ Edmund BurkeWe hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.~ Aesop 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print