Calvin Coolidge
” We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts…. Self-government means self-reliance.”
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Category: Daily Quote
Michael Rivero
” Most people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.”
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Dante Alighieri
” For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?”
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Thomas Jefferson
” The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy. It requires, indeed, self-command. But that will be fortified in proportion as the calls for its exercise are repeated.”
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Joseph Banister
” The Internal Revenue Service is everything the so-called tax protesters said it was; nonresponsive, unable to withstand scrutiny, tyrannical, and oblivious to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.”
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Gerald W Johnson
” We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear — unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called ‘the insolence of elected persons’ — in a word, free men.”
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Lysander Spooner
” If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves. “
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Henry George
” He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.”
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Frederic Bastiat
” The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.”
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Edmund Burke
” No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
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George Washington
” The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible… Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?… It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”
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Aldous Huxley
” The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.”
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Friedrich August von Hayek
Born: May 08, 1899 Died: Mar 23, 1992
” Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom. “
Happy Birthday Sir
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Sir Richard Francis Burton
” Do what thy manhood bids thee do, From none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies Who makes and keeps his self-made laws “
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
” Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
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John Milton
” None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.”
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Confucius
” The superior man understands what is right. The inferior man understands what is popular.”
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Charlie Reese
” If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans.”
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Maria Montessori
” Discipline must come through liberty… We do not consider an individual disciplined when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.”
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Germaine Greer
” Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.”
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Reuven Brenner
” Historians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.”
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Justice Hugo L Black
” Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.”
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PJ O’Rourke
” Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It’s not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the “right” to education, the “right” to health care, the “right” to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle. There’s only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
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