Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-06-30 Jun 30, 2026To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.~ Friedrich August von HayekBut there is another strong objection which I, one of the laziest of all the children of Adam, have against the Leisure State. Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master, for the machine would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion of how it was really being produced.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonNever could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.~ Hilaire Belloc Jun 29, 2026We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Congress's legislative time.~ Dr. Ron PaulParties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them.~ Elbert HubbardWe have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.~ George Bernard Shaw Jun 26, 2026Creation comes before distribution or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.~ Ayn RandAnd so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.~ John F. KennedyGovernment can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 25, 2026The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.~ Charlotte Perkins GilmanWhat shall be done with the four million slaves if they are emancipated? ... Primarily, it is a question less for man than for God -- less for human intellect than for the laws of nature to solve. It assumes that nature has erred; that the law of liberty is a mistake; that freedom, though a natural want of the human soul, can only be enjoyed at the expense of human welfare, and that men are better off in slavery than they would or could be in freedom; that slavery is the natural order of human relations, and that liberty is an experiment. What shall be done with them? Our answer is, do nothing with them; mind your business, and let them mind theirs. Your doing with them is their greatest misfortune. They have been undone by your doings, and all they now ask, and really have need of at your hands, is just to let them alone. They suffer by every interference, and succeed best by being let alone.~ Frederick DouglassIdleness and lack of occupation tend -- nay are dragged -- towards evil.~ Hippocrates Jun 24, 2026Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed.~ James WilsonThe public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.~ Justice Hugo L. BlackOnce the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.~ Lawrence Auster Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print