Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-01-23 Jan 23, 2003The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.~ Cornelius TacitusLaws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.~ Frank HerbertThe United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.~ Frank Zappa Jan 22, 2003Government of the self was the original basis for republican government, reflecting the view that civil society was much more than politics. Society was made up of men and women who gave order to their lives by entering into associations on a voluntary basis, quite apart from government, for all the various reasons of fellowship, philanthrophy, faith and commerce.~ Hans L. EicholzAt the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.~ Robert F. Kennedy Jan 21, 2003The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.~ William Henry HarrisonI am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Jan 20, 2003I believe the State exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of the state.~ Julian HuxleyIn a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.~ Walter Lippmann Jan 17, 2003All free constitutions are formed with two views -- to deter the governed from crime, and the governors from tyranny.~ John Lansing, Jr.It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.~ Richard Henry Lee Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print