Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-09-12 Sep 11, 2026A government is the only vessel known to leak from the top.~ James RestonGovernment does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.~ P. J. O'RourkeIf you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.~ Thomas Sowell Sep 10, 2026A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.~ David B. CoblitzYou will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.~ John Kenneth GalbraithA government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.~ Lao-Tzu Sep 9, 2026We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land -- nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.~ Daniel WebsterIt is my belief that there are “absolutes” in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes.~ Justice Hugo L. BlackAlways put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.~ Morris Mandel Sep 8, 2026Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.~ Robert Louis StevensonEvery central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.~ Alexis de TocquevilleHow much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.~ Benjamin Disraeli Sep 7, 2026The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.~ Justice Hugo L. BlackThe lust for power in dominating others inflames the heart more than any other passion.~ Cornelius TacitusFormerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.~ Oswald Spengler Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print