Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-06-07 Jun 7, 2005There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.~ Ayn RandThose who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.~ Eric HofferA man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.~ Michel De Montaigne Jun 6, 2005Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.~ William ShakespeareTo totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.~ Jean-Francois RevelAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.~ Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais Jun 3, 2005If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.~ John LockeThe power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.~ John Locke... whenever the Legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence. ... [Power then] devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty, and, by the Establishment of a new Legislative (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own Safety and Security, which is the end for which they are in Society.~ John Locke Jun 2, 2005The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.~ Mikhail A. BakuninWe can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols.~ Henry Morgenthau, Jr.It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. ... it does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.~ Albert Jay Nock Jun 1, 2005There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.~ Bill Clinton[A] possible further difficulty is cited, namely, that arising from the Constitutional provision that only Congress may declare war. This argument is countered with the contention that a treaty will override this barrier, let alone the fact that our participation in such police action as might be recommended by the international security organization need not necessarily be construed as war.~ Council on Foreign Relations...no nation which signs this [UN] Charter can justly maintain that any of its acts are its own business, or within its own domestic jurisdiction, if the security council says that these acts are a threat to the peace.~ William Carr Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print