Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-09-17 Sep 17, 2024The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.~ AristotleThe deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles de MontesquieuWe are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press. It is however, the prostituted companion of liberty, and somehow or other, we know not how, its efficient auxiliary. It follows the substance like its shade; but while a man walks erect, he may observe that his shadow is almost always in the dirt. It corrupts, it deceives, it inflames. It strips virtue of her honors, and lends to faction its wildfire and its poisoned arms, and in the end is its own enemy and the usurper's ally, It would be easy to enlarge on its evils. They are in England, they are here, they are everywhere. It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.~ Fisher Ames Sep 16, 2024Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.~ Lord ChesterfieldVery few established institutions, governments and constitutions...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.~ Walter Lippmann[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.~ Alexis De Tocqueville Sep 13, 2024He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.~ Salvador de MadariagaThere is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.~ Alan K. SimpsonThe end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.~ Aldous Huxley Sep 12, 2024Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.~ Ronald ReaganWe have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest -- which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves.~ Thomas JeffersonAmerica is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.~ Josef Stalin Sep 11, 2024Our lack of constant awareness has also permitted us to accept definitions of freedom that are not necessarily consistent with the actuality of being free. Because we have learned to confuse the word with the reality the word seeks to describe, our vocabulary has become riddled with distorted and contradictory meanings smuggled into the language.~ Butler D. ShafferWhen in charge, ponder... When in trouble, delegate... When in doubt, mumble.~ Dr. Jim BorenHow strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!~ Samuel Adams Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print