Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-09-21 Sep 21, 2004The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.~ Murray N. RothbardThe notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free – which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.~ Alan BarthWhile the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Sep 20, 2004The most may err as grossly as the few.~ John DrydenCommunism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority.~ James A. C. BrownA race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.~ Max Stirner Sep 17, 2004If you ask Americans whether they want an FBI wire tax in their phone bill, they'll say, “No.” If I ask them whether they want a feature on their telephone which allows me to find their child, if they're taken, they'll say, “Yes.” I think it's a question of perception.~ Louis FreehSecrecy is the beginning of tyranny.~ Robert A. HeinleinWe have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.~ Robert Hughes Sep 15, 2004The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.~ Aldous HuxleyVolumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?~ Ayn RandAnd here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse -- the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.~ Barry Goldwater Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print