Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-11-06 Nov 6, 2023The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.~ Roger ShermanThere are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.~ Ronald ReaganFor when they shall say, 'Peace and Safety', then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a women with child; and they shall not escape.~ St. Paul Nov 3, 2023Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.~ Ayn RandIf it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?~ Robert Anton WilsonYou can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.~ Robert A. Heinlein Nov 2, 2023When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.~ John Milton ... I suggest that the more the state intervenes in such situations, the more 'necessary' (on this view) it becomes, because positive altruism and voluntary cooperative behaviour atrophy in the presence of the state and grow in its absence. Thus, again, the state exacerbates the conditions which are supposed to make it necessary. We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it.~ Michael TaylorThe history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Nov 1, 2023Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.~ Khalil GibranIt is important therefore that in these schools the precepts of morality and religion should be inculcated, and habits of subordination and obedience formed. One of the greatest blessings which the State can confer upon her children is to instill into their minds at an early period moral and religious truths. ... Thousands of unfortunate children are growing up in perfect ignorance of their moral and religious duties. Their parents equally unfortunate know not how to instruct them, and have not the opportunity or ability of placing them under the care of those who could give them instruction. The State, in the warmth of her affection and solicitude for their welfare, must take charge of those children and place them in schools where their minds can be enlightened and their hearts can be trained to virtue.~ Archibald D. MurpheyLiberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.~ Jonathan Swift Oct 31, 2023A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues…is on the way to totalitarianism and death.~ Robert M. HutchinsIf the political-correctness fascists get their way, we can safely assume it will be correct-thinking, “political cleansing” squads deciding what we can or cannot say on the Intenet. These people fear public debate and demand homogenization of “acceptable” attitudes compatible with their emotional, utopian idealism.~ Charles W. MooreYou taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.~ Garrison Keillor Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print