Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-07-20 Jul 20, 2005The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance -- a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms -- A Nation of Finger Pointers.~ Lance MorrowI heartily accept the motto, that government is best which governs least ... Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, that government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.~ Henry David ThoreauGovernment is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.~ Ronald Reagan 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print