Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-06-28 Jun 28, 2006No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.~ Tammy BruceThe greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.~ Friedrich August von HayekThe public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.~ Sir William Blackstone Jun 27, 2006The State…has had a vested interest in promoting attitudes that would tend to make us skeptical of our own abilities, fearful of the motives of others, and emotionally dependent upon external authorities for purpose and direction in our lives.~ Butler D. ShafferGood intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.~ Daniel WebsterThe dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.~ Franklin Pierce Jun 26, 2006Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. ... [I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.~ Ronald ReaganI wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.~ Edward ZehrRepublics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.~ Justice Joseph Story Jun 23, 2006I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.~ Frederick the GreatHistory will be kind to me for I intend to write it.~ Sir Winston ChurchillBelieve nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.~ Buddha Jun 22, 2006It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses --- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.~ Alan Charles KorsCollege isn't the place to go for ideas.~ Helen KellerA university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.~ Richard Hofstadter Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print