Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-09-06 Sep 6, 2021Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices – taking advantage of our freedom of speech – who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.~ Nat HentoffIt seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.~ Sanford LevinsonExperience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.~ Thomas Jefferson Sep 3, 2021When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonNever trust governments absolutely and always do what you can to prevent them from doing too much harm.~ John Arthur PassmoreWe find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.~ John Dryden Sep 2, 2021Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.~ John AdamsWe are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.~ John F. KennedyWe may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.~ Karen Horney Sep 1, 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 expense. ... They are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs.~ Adam SmithTrusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many; for, as the almanac says, in the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it; but a man's own care is profitable; for, saith Poor Dick, learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and Heaven to the virtuous.~ Benjamin FranklinNo government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.~ Edmund Burke Aug 31, 2021Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.~ Alan WattsMorality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.~ Aldous HuxleyYou see what power is -- holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!~ Amy Tan Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print