Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-05-10 May 8, 2020A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.~ G. Gordon LiddyA committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.~ Alan ShermanThe argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.~ Friedrich August von Hayek May 7, 2020Against individualism, the fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State, which is the conscience and universal will of man...~ Benito MussoliniThe deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles de MontesquieuThey: The makers of the Constitution: conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis May 6, 2020Freedom is risky. Nature makes no promises.~ Eric SchaubNo matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?~ Thomas SowellThe fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.~ Vincent van Gogh May 5, 2020The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.~ Chinese ProverbThe patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy. It requires, indeed, self-command. But that will be fortified in proportion as the calls for its exercise are repeated.~ Thomas JeffersonMind Your Business~ U. S. Treasury May 4, 2020To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.~ Claude-Adrien HelvetiusOf all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.~ C. S. LewisThe most formidable weapons against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.~ Thomas Paine Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print