Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-02-12 Feb 12, 2025The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.~ George Bernard ShawThe tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.~ John A. HobsonRestraint of government is the true liberty and freedom of the people.~ John P. Reid Feb 11, 2025American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. …The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.~ Dr. Ron PaulThe only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.~ Eugene McCarthyNothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.~ Milton Friedman Feb 10, 2025Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.~ Benjamin FranklinIt is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.~ Etienne de la BoétieThat principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.~ John Stuart Mill Feb 7, 2025If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.~ George OrwellThe voice of the majority is no proof of justice.~ Johann von SchillerNone can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.~ John Milton Feb 6, 2025It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.~ Bruce SchneierGood intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.~ Daniel WebsterEvery ambitious would-be empire clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it! ... If America ever does seek Empire, and most nations do, then planned reforms in our domestic life will be abandoned, States Rights will be abolished -- in order to impose a centralized government upon us for the purpose of internal repudiation of freedom, and adventures abroad. The American Dream will then die -- on battlefields all over the world -- and a nation conceived in liberty will destroy liberty for Americans and impose tyranny on subject nations.~ George S. Boutwell Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print