Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-07-15 Jul 15, 2021We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.~ Davy Crockett...for that nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise.~ Francis BaconAbsolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.~ Kentucky Declaration of Rights - Art. I, Sec. 2 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print