Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-02-25 Feb 25, 2025Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.~ Niccolo MachiavelliTyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'~ Ronald ReaganWe are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather-bed.~ Thomas Jefferson Feb 24, 2025Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.~ Henry Cabot LodgeFor we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.~ St. PaulIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.~ Voltaire Feb 21, 2025It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.~ David HumeLiberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.~ David Lloyd GeorgeYou can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?~ Khalil Gibran Feb 20, 2025The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.~ Edmund BurkeThere is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.~ Elbert HubbardWhen law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.~ Frederic Bastiat Feb 19, 2025There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system.~ Ayn RandConstitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of constitutional rights against any stealthy encroachments thereon.~ Boyd v. U.S.Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.~ Eric Hoffer Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print