Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-05-12 May 12, 2020As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people.~ Jeffrey R. SnyderMy grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.~ Margaret MeadReaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.~ Norman Mailer May 11, 2020[I]t is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.~ Friedrich August von HayekWhen the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the State, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution.~ Thomas JeffersonA constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.~ Thomas Paine 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print