Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-04-05 Apr 5, 2022 ... as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ...~ Benjamin Franklin Apr 4, 2022The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face.~ Justice Potter StewartThe judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a coordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet... We shall see if they are bold enough to take the daring stride their five lawyers have lately taken. If they do, then... I will say, that 'against this every man should raise his voice,' and more, should uplift his arm.~ Thomas JeffersonExtremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.~ Barry Goldwater Apr 1, 2022I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.~ William Tecumseh ShermanThe essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.~ John A. FisherCan any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?~ Alexander Hamilton Mar 31, 2022It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.~ Ayn RandHaving so pledged myself, and having been elected to my senatorship upon such pledge, and not having been elected to create an organization to which we would give a promise, either express or implied, that it would have the authority to send our boys all over the Earth, I cannot support the Charter. I believe it is fraught with danger to the American people and to American institutions.~ William LangerWar is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.~ William Tecumseh Sherman Mar 30, 2022No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.~ General Douglas MacArthurSuppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!~ Bertolt BrechtHe who wants peace must prepare for war.~ Claudius Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print