Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-04-19 Apr 19, 2023Our Founders warned us that all republics have eventually fallen into tyranny -- the only difference being the relative timeline of each republic's descent. ... From the summer of 1787 when our Framers deliberated over their magnificent Constitution, we have recognized that the clear statement and equal application of the Law is among the most critical duties of any government. If we allow ourselves to lose this, we may as well be back in ancient Rome, subject to the whim of every petty tyrant in the taxing bureau or the zoning board. For it doesn't matter whether the regulator's foot is shod in a jack boot or a Roman sandal; if he can hold you down with that boot upon your neck, then we are no longer in the America that our Founding Fathers intended for us.~ John F. Di LeoThe Internal Revenue Service is everything the so-called tax protesters said it was; nonresponsive, unable to withstand scrutiny, tyrannical, and oblivious to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.~ Joseph BanisterOur Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.~ Benjamin Franklin Apr 18, 2023Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.~ Napoleon BonaparteHe [King George III] has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.~ Thomas Jefferson[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.~ Milton Friedman Apr 17, 2023Let Mr. Madison tell me when did liberty ever exist when the sword and the purse were given up from the people? Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse.~ Patrick HenryThere is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.~ Robert A. HeinleinThe root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies.~ Samuel P. Hays Apr 14, 2023Prejudice rarely survives experience.~ Eve ZibartWho is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?~ Maurice FreehillThe real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, -- but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Apr 13, 2023Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.~ Jerome D. FrankThe least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.~ AristotleThere is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print