Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-08-09 Aug 9, 2001The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.~ Adolf HitlerThe more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.~ Dr. Joseph Mengele Aug 8, 2001Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. ~ Abraham Lincoln Aug 7, 2001Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.~ Lord ActonThe only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.~ Eugene McCarthyGood government is the most dangerous government, because it deprives people of the need to look after themselves.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiNothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.~ Peter Drucker Aug 6, 2001Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.~ W. C. FieldsI can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.~ John CageThere are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.~ Heisenberg Aug 3, 2001These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.~ Thomas PaineCourage is the first of all the virtues because if you haven't courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of the others.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonI like a man who grins when he fights.~ Sir Winston Churchill Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print