Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-01-27 Jan 27, 2004Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.~ Lord ChesterfieldBig Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.~ Justice William O. DouglasPeople crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous...~ Edmund Burke Jan 26, 2004To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.~ Charles Caleb ColtonThe human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire.~ Robert A. HeinleinWithout law and order our nation cannot survive.~ Adolf Hitler Jan 23, 2004Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.~ Mikhail A. BakuninThe test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.~ Henri Frederic AmielI’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.~ Lisa Alther Jan 22, 2004A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious.~ AristotleHe does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.~ Dr. Thomas FullerThere is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.~ Frank ClarkAll religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.~ Henry Clay Jan 21, 2004Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'~ Sir Winston ChurchillThe two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us ...~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print