Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-05-02 May 2, 2005Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution? Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.~ Jay LenoEither you are with us or you are with the terrorists.~ George W. BushWe can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton Apr 29, 2005At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.~ Eric IdleI express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.~ Edgar Watson HoweLife does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.~ George Bernard Shaw Apr 28, 2005Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.~ James BovardGet all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.~ Frank DaneEnglish character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.~ James Anthony Froude Apr 27, 2005For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3.~ Alice KahnYou will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.~ John Kenneth GalbraithIf you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.~ Milton Friedman Apr 26, 2005Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.~ H. L. MenckenPolitics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.~ Paul ValéryThe problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.~ Hazel Henderson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print