Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-10-05 Oct 5, 2004The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.~ H. L. MenckenDistrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.~ Friedrich Nietzsche Oct 4, 2004Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.~ Albert EinsteinConstitutions are made of paper; Bayonets are made of steel.~ French AphorismThe enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.~ Immanuel Kant Oct 1, 2004The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.~ Friedrich August von HayekPolitical scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.~ Rudolph J. RummelThe trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.~ Thomas Paine Sep 30, 2004The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.~ Daniel WebsterThe dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.~ Franklin PierceThe possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.~ George D. Herron Sep 29, 2004The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.~ General Douglas MacArthurThe concentrating [of powers] in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.~ Thomas JeffersonLiberty requires restraints on popularly-elected leaders, as well as from minorities, so that the individual is protected from undue and arbitrary coercion by the state. These restraints are provided by a plurality of more or less equal and independent groups which check and balance one another's power.~ William Kornhauser Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print