Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-12-12 Dec 12, 2006You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr.Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom.~ Eric HofferThe gods help them that help themselves.~ Aesop Dec 11, 2006Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.~ Ambrose BierceSmearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.~ Eleanor RooseveltIf you cannot convince them, confuse them.~ Harry S. Truman Dec 8, 2006No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.~ Edmund BurkeNone can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.~ John MiltonDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.~ Thomas Jefferson Dec 7, 2006Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.~ Lord ActonSecret societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history...It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence...~ Manley P. HallPolice State: A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force.~ Yahooligans Reference Dec 6, 2006The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.~ Immanuel KantWhen the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.~ Reverend Martin NiemoellerIf we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.~ Will Rogers Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print