Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-01-29 Jan 29, 2003A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.~ Sir Alex Fraser TytlerThe rising power of the United States in world affairs ... requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism ... Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side ... but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities.~ James Reston 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print