Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-07-20 Jul 20, 2006Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.~ William O. DouglasIt is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.~ Albert EinsteinWithin seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000.~ F. J. Lucas Jul 19, 2006Politics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.~ Auberon HerbertThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.~ H. L. MenckenThere is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.~ James Madison Jul 18, 2006Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.~ Mary McCarthyGiving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.~ P. J. O'RourkeHell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.~ Milton Friedman Jul 17, 2006The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites.'~ Larry HardimanNo man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.~ Benjamin FranklinNinety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.~ Henry Kissinger Jul 14, 2006Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.~ Michel de MontaigneBut how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?~ Daniel Joseph BerriganThis, then, is freedom in the external life of man -- that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.~ Ludwig von Mises Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print