Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-05-18 May 18, 2020And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties -- liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, of labor, of trade?~ Frederic BastiatThe Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.~ Milton FriedmanWe ask that government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within the confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: ... an end to the power of financial interest. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand ... the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our system of public education.... We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents.... The government must undertake the improvement of public health -- by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor -- by the greatest possible support for all groups concerned with the physical education of youth. [W]e combat the ... materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of The Common Good Before the Individual Good.~ National Socialist Party of Germany (NAZI) May 15, 2020The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.~ John Kenneth GalbraithProgressives understand that their program for a government-centered society becomes more plausible the more people believe that work -- individual striving -- is unavailing. Government grows as fatalism grows, and fatalism grows as progressivism inculcates in people the demoralizing -- make that de-moralizing -- belief that they are victims of circumstances.~ George WillThe seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi May 14, 2020The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.~ Andrew JacksonWe don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can make for us or spare us.~ Marcel ProustAre you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?~ Ronald Reagan May 13, 2020Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.~ Booker T. WashingtonGovernment by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.~ Lord ActonThe strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.~ Thomas Paine 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print