Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-07-14 Jul 14, 2021A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.~ Grover ClevelandEveryone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.~ Frederic BastiatGive a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.~ Chinese Proverb Jul 13, 2021Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.~ Henrik Ibsen[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.~ James Madison Jul 12, 2021It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will.~ Adam SmithNo man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.~ Gideon J. TuckerBy a very conservative estimate, a hundred million people have died at the hands of their own governments in this century. Given that record, how bad could anarchy be?~ Joseph Sobran Jul 9, 2021We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.~ Edward R. MurrowTo compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.~ Thomas JeffersonThe American’s conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man’s way of life.~ Walter Lippmann Jul 8, 2021Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.~ Woodrow WilsonI want gay married people to be able to protect their marijuana plants with guns.~ Tim MoenThe voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.~ Charles Eliot Norton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print