Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-07-19 Jul 19, 2005Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.~ Alan WattsIf you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.~ Erich FrommGovernment does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.~ P. J. O'Rourke Jul 18, 2005The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles de MontesquieuA Country can get more real joy out of just Hollering for their Freedom than they can if they get it.~ Will RogersTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.~ William Cowper Jul 15, 2005My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.~ Mark TwainMen fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves.~ D. H. LawrenceWe cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.~ Edward R. Murrow Jul 14, 2005Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.~ Lord ByronNever give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.~ Sir Winston ChurchillWe have met the enemy and he is us.~ Walt Kelly Jul 13, 2005The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.~ John Stuart MillNo man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore our belief in our own guidance.~ Henry MillerThe whole principle is wrong. It’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.~ Robert A. Heinlein Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print