Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-07-21 Jul 21, 2020I swear by my life, and love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.~ Ayn RandPeople are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.~ George Bernard ShawThe man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Jul 20, 2020No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.~ Daniel WebsterThe worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.~ Ludwig von MisesWere we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.~ Thomas Jefferson Jul 17, 2020My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.~ J. C. Watts, Jr.To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.~ Lord George LyttletonIn matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Jul 16, 2020A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.~ Barry GoldwaterHere is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you.~ Albert Jay NockThose who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.~ Benjamin Franklin Jul 15, 2020He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.~ Salvador de MadariagaUltimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.~ Elie WieselThe most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.~ H. L. Mencken Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print