Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-08-09 Aug 9, 2021We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.~ Edmund BurkeA dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.~ BuddhaHow you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience. It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit, can sleep better.~ Mark Twain Aug 6, 2021Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. Freedom of money and freedom of banking...are the principles that must guide our steps.~ Hans F. SennholzNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.~ James BaldwinIf you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.~ Joseph Sobran Aug 4, 2021The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.~ Luc de ClapiersAn honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.~ Thomas JeffersonHonor lies in honest toil.~ Grover Cleveland Aug 3, 2021The general object was to produce a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origins, every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy.~ Edmund Randolph[L]iberty, or the absence of coercion, or the leaving people to think, speak, and act as they please, is in itself a good thing. It is the object of a favourable presumption. The burden of proving it inexpedient always lies, and wholly lies, on those who wish to abridge it by coercion, whether direct or indirect.~ John MorleyLiberty is not a cruise ship full of pampered passengers. Liberty is a man-of-war, and we are all crew.~ Kenneth W. Royce Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print