Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-06-18 Jun 18, 2001Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.~ Alan WattsBureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.~ Laurence J. Peter Jun 15, 2001Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 14, 2001One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.~ Thomas B. ReedI have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it.~ Abraham LincolnSociety in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.~ Thomas Paine Jun 13, 2001Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men.~ Adam Smith Jun 12, 2001I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.~ Edward R. Murrow Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print