Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-05-19 May 18, 2007We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.~ Charles Alan MurrayNothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.~ Milton FriedmanIf you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.~ Ronald Reagan May 17, 2007The ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle, home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics, he feels himself master of his fate. But otherwise he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.~ George OrwellFreedom is not something that can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.~ James BaldwinFree is not the same as free and easy.~ Larry Eisenberg May 16, 2007All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.~ John Quincy AdamsExperts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.~ Walter E. WilliamsWhat chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?~ William S. Lind May 15, 2007All men having power ought to be mistrusted.~ James MadisonIn view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.~ John Marshall HarlanThere are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them.~ Joseph Joubert May 14, 2007In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.~ Charles de GaulleThe average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.~ H. L. MenckenWhile the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print