Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-06-16 Jun 16, 2026If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?~ William DraytonWith respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.~ James MadisonThe Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.~ Tom Anderson Jun 15, 2026Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.~ Ronald ReaganWelfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.~ Ronald ReaganYou and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.'~ Ronald Reagan Jun 12, 2026Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.~ Michel De Montaigne[Natural rights are] moral claims to those spheres of action which are necessary for the welfare of the individual and the development of his personality.~ Miner Searle BatesWhat a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?~ William Winwood Reade Jun 11, 2026He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth or duty.~ Khalil GibranI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.~ Thomas JeffersonBetter to dwell in freedom's hall, With a cold damp floor and mouldering wall, Than bow the head and bend the knee In the proudest palace of slaverie.~ Thomas Moore Jun 10, 2026You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.~ Harry S. TrumanI am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.~ Mark TwainNo people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.~ Theodore Roosevelt Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print