Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-10-22 Oct 22, 2020The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.~ Patrick HenryOur experience has shown us that in the excitement of great popular elections, deciding the policy of the country, and its vast patronage, frauds will be committed, if a chance is given for them. If these frauds are allowed, the result is not only that the popular will may be defeated, and the result falsified, but that the worst side will prevail. The side which has the greater number of dishonest men will poll the most votes. The war cry, "Vote early and vote often!" and the familiar problem, "how to cast the greatest number of votes with the smallest number of voters", indicate the direction in which the dangers lie.~ Richard Henry Dana, Jr.According to the Taranto Principle, the press's failure to hold left-wingers accountable for bad behavior merely encourages the left's bad behavior to the point that its candidates are repellent to ordinary Americans.~ R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Oct 21, 2020Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.~ Clemens von MetternichYour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.~ Edmund BurkeDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.~ E. B. White Oct 20, 2020An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.~ Ambrose BierceIf pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.~ Orson Scott CardDemocracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.~ Alan Corenk Oct 19, 2020Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.~ Benjamin DisraeliThe greatest violator of the principle of equal liberty is the State. Its functions are to control, to rule, to dictate, to regulate, and in exercising these functions it interferes with and injures individuals who have done no wrong. The objection to government is, not that it controls those who invade the liberty of others, but that it controls the non-invader. It may be necessary to govern one who will not govern himself, but that in no wise justifies governing one who is capable of and willing to govern himself. To argue that because some need restraint all must be restrained is neither consistent nor logical. ~ Charles T. SpradingNo government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!~ Ronald Reagan Oct 16, 2020Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.~ Ambrose BierceThe government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.~ John C. CalhounThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.~ Sir Winston Churchill Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print