Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-02-19 Feb 19, 2007Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.~ Aldous HuxleyThe conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.~ Edward BernaysChief among the spoils of victory is the privilege of writing the history.~ Mark Alexander Feb 16, 2007Honor lies in honest toil.~ Grover ClevelandEveryone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.~ Frederic BastiatDeath is better, a milder fate than tyranny.~ Aeschylus Feb 15, 2007Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert EinsteinTreat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMake men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.~ William Godwin Feb 14, 2007The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.~ Clarence S. DarrowAll that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.~ Edmund BurkeCourage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others.~ Sir Winston Churchill Feb 13, 2007Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.~ Lord ActonBeware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.~ AesopThe whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.~ Wavy Gravy Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print