Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-05-16 May 16, 2006Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.~ Benedetto CroceI love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.~ James A. GarfieldAlways stand on principle, even if you stand alone.~ John Quincy Adams May 15, 2006A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.~ C. S. LewisAnyone who tells you that "It Can't Happen Here" is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no 'house rule' that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos.~ Mike VanderboeghThe penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs, is to be ruled by evil men.~ Plato May 12, 2006Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.~ Ambrose BierceUnder democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right.~ H. L. MenckenI never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.~ Thomas Jefferson May 11, 2006A true party-man hates and despises candour.~ Adam SmithThe Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonIn general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.~ Voltaire May 10, 2006Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.~ Lawrence AusterYou and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.'~ Ronald ReaganIf you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.~ Thomas Sowell Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print