Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-06-01 Jun 1, 2001The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.~ Norman ThomasA liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist.~ Unknown May 31, 2001Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.~ A. J. P. TaylorArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness.~ George WashingtonUnlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.~ William Pitt, Sr. May 30, 2001That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.~ Alabama, Declaration of Rights Article I Section 35 May 29, 2001There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them are true.~ Sir Winston ChurchillAll truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.~ Arthur SchopenhauerWe are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.~ Patrick HenryWe are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.~ Patrick Henry May 28, 2001Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.~ George WashingtonIf Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.~ James Madison Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print