Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-09-26 Sep 26, 2003The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.~ James BaldwinIf you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.~ James BuchananThe worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Sep 25, 2003Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.~ Dr. Jim BorenPublic apathy is more powerful than public opinion. There's more of it.~ Dr. Jim BorenIf you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.~ Milton Friedman Sep 24, 2003To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.~ Friedrich August von HayekThe real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.~ PlutarchIt is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.~ Walter Lippmann Sep 23, 2003Democracy is like a raft. It won't sink, but you'll always have your feet wet.~ Russell LongI could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.~ Thomas JeffersonIt's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.~ Tom Stoppard Sep 22, 2003American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.~ Sir Winston ChurchillDemocracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.~ Laurence J. PeterI like the noise of democracy.~ James Buchanan Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print