Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-09-16 Sep 16, 2026Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.~ Hubert H. HumphreyLiberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.~ H. L. MenckenThis freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.~ Robert Earl Hayden Sep 15, 2026A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.~ Alexander HamiltonThere can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.~ George WashingtonNo man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.~ Theodore Roosevelt Sep 14, 2026Our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, not any government secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.~ Daniel WebsterIt also occurred to me that you might have had Ideas to that Purport when you disapproved of the Meetings of the Democratic-Societies, which appeared to me to be a Branch of that Order, though many Members may be entirely ignorant of the Plan. Those Men who are so much attached to French Principles, have all the Marks of Jacobinism. They first cast off all religious Restraints, and then became fit for perpetrating every Act of Inhumanity. And, it is remarkable, that most of them are actually Scoffers at all religious Principles.~ George Washington SnyderProvidence has given our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.~ John Jay 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print