Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-08-30 Aug 30, 2006Ponder the capriciousness of human nature, which allows momentary appetites and fleeting attitudes to set the courses for entire lives and future responsibilities.~ Ann GrayTo vest a few fallible men – prosecutors, judges, jurors – with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill has called the “Moral Police,” it is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products.~ Jerome D. FrankBut I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts us absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many lifeless bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Aug 29, 2006Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.~ Hermann GoeringThus arbitrary power will have divided men of superior intelligence into two groups: the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt...~ Benjamin ConstantIn order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi Aug 28, 2006Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.~ Thomas JeffersonThe lust for power in dominating others inflames the heart more than any other passion.~ Cornelius Tacitus[I]t is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Aug 25, 2006A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.~ U.S. Constitution, Second AmendmentWho are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...? I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public officers.~ George MasonCongress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.~ Tench Coxe Aug 24, 2006No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another.~ A Bill Concerning SlavesAmong other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised....~ Niccolo MachiavelliAre we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?~ Patrick Henry Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print