Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-10-09 Oct 8, 2004The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.~ Friedrich August von HayekDemocracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.~ Ludwig LewisohnHe is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.~ Salvador De MadariagaEvery government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 7, 2004Terrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich.~ Leon UrisThere have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men – the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.~ Robert Y. Hayne Oct 6, 2004It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.~ Hunter S. ThompsonThere are men – now in power in this country – who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.~ John V. LindsayCivil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.~ William Graham Sumner 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print