Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-07-24 Jul 24, 2006There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system.~ Ayn RandCorruptissima re publica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)~ Cornelius TacitusA guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.~ Jean de la Bruyere Jul 21, 2006The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.~ William Henry HarrisonFor you see, the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.~ Benjamin DisraeliAbuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.~ Clint Eastwood 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print