Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-10-16 Oct 16, 2003Not to be, but to seem, virtuous -- it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.~ C. S. LewisIt is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.~ C. S. LewisFor who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?~ C. S. Lewis Oct 15, 2003A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.~ Barry GoldwaterNow those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.~ Barry GoldwaterExtremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.~ Barry Goldwater Oct 14, 2003The ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.~ Albert EinsteinGreat spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert EinsteinEverything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.~ Albert Einstein Oct 13, 2003We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.~ Mark TwainThe mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.~ Mark Twain[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.~ Mark Twain Oct 10, 2003For what can war but endless war still breed?~ John MiltonGive me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.~ John MiltonNo man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.~ John Milton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print