Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-01-28 Jan 28, 2003And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?~ Thomas Babington MacaulayThe maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Jan 27, 2003If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.~ Carl SchurzNone can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.~ John Milton Jan 24, 2003We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.~ Benjamin R. TuckerLaws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.~ Jonathan SwiftLaws do not persuade just because they threaten.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print