Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-09-25 Sep 25, 2025Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper.~ Everett Dean MartinLaissez-nous faire, laissez-nous passer. Le monde va de lui meme. (Let us do, leave us alone. The world runs by itself.)~ French SayingWhy doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?~ Jimmy Durante Sep 24, 2025Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.~ William PittOf course, the proponents of political tyranny are usually well-motivated. Those who enacted the gun-registration law in California point to criminals who have used semiautomatic weapons to commit horrible, murderous acts. But the illusion -- the pipe dream -- is that bad acts can be prevented by the deprivation of liberty. They cannot be! Life is always insecure. The only choice is between liberty and insecurity, on the one hand, and insecurity and enslavement on the other. The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government. This is why the gun owners of California might ultimately go down in history as among the greatest and most courageous patriots of our time.~ Jacob G. Hornberger Sep 23, 2025To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.~ Dr. G. Brock ChisolmOur government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.~ General Douglas MacArthurA man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.~ C. S. Lewis Sep 22, 2025No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.~ Benjamin FranklinEvery time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.~ John F. KennedyWhen you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.~ Ronald Reagan Sep 19, 2025Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.~ Dr. Ron PaulNo more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.~ Edwin Hubbel ChapinThe republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.~ Elmer Davis Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print