Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-01-21 Jan 19, 2001Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.~ Benjamin FranklinThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.~ StendhalMake yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.~ Benjamin Franklin Jan 18, 2001Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.~ Thomas PaineThe evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.~ John HayHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.~ Anne Frank Jan 17, 2001When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.~ Edmund BurkeWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.~ Benjamin Franklin Jan 16, 2001Government is like fire. If it is kept within bounds and under the control of the people, it contributes to the welfare of all. But if it gets out of place, if it gets too big and out of control, it destroys the happiness and even the lives of the people.~ Harold E. Stassen Jan 15, 2001Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.~ Kentucky Declaration of Rights - Art. I, Sec. 2 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print