Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-05-04 May 4, 2005I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth – matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.~ James BryceWhy, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here... Americans just want us to solve America's problems of health and safety -- and not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified.~ Sen. John GlennVideo meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. (I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.)~ Ovid May 3, 2005Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.~ Thomas JeffersonAll in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.~ Joseph SobranThe ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.~ Voltaire 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print