Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-01-11 Jan 11, 2001I heartily accept the motto, that government is best which governs least ... Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, that government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.~ Henry David Thoreau Jan 10, 2001The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.~ Ayn RandWhen we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes Jan 9, 2001[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.~ John AdamsA right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.~ Ramsey Clark Jan 8, 2001Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.~ Edmund BurkeThe first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.~ Richard A. Viguerie Jan 5, 2001Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.~ George Bernard Shaw Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print