Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-12-14 Dec 14, 2006Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply means that there will be another dictator. ... the policies they follow will probably not be radically different. If we look around the world, we quickly realize that these policies will not be radically different from those that would be followed by a democracy either.~ Gordon TullockI am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.~ Hermann GoeringThe Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Dec 13, 2006Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.~ Walter GoodmanO, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!~ Sir Walter ScottNo people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.~ Theodore Roosevelt 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print