Thoughts
More From John Adams
There is a danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
2017-11-27 at 15:12:58
From Alexis de Tocqueville
The citizen of the United States is taught from infancy to rely on his own exertions, in order to resist the evils of life; he looks upon the social authority with an eye of mistrust and anxiety, and he claims its assistance only when he is unable to do without it.
2017-11-25 at 10:44:45
From Robert Ringer
A man has the right to dispose of his life and his property in any way he chooses, without interference from anyone else. A man has no right to dispose of any other mans life or property, no matter what his personal rationalizations may be.
2017-11-21 at 12:49:43
From John Lennon
You gotta remember, establishment, it is just a name for evil. The monster does not care whether it kills all the students or whether there is a revolution. It is not thinking logically, it is out of control. The trouble with government as it is, is that it does not represent the people, It Controls Them.
2017-11-20 at 20:20:04
From James F. Byrnes
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when his is intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
2017-11-18 at 08:41:08
More From Henry David Thoreau
Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its own way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
2017-11-16 at 12:48:35
More From Frederic Bastiat
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
2017-11-14 at 12:20:14
From Gary M. Galles
If not for the corrupting lure of something for nothing, people would long ago have rejected the idea that wishes imply rights.
2017-11-11 at 14:55:48
From John Quincy Adams
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize
Man still is bound to rescue or maintain;
That natures God commands the slave to rise,
And on the oppressors head to break the chain.
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round.
Till not a slave on this earth shall be found.
2017-11-09 at 11:49:41
More From Dwight D. Eisenhower
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
2017-11-06 at 12:06:55
Author Unknown
The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.
2017-11-03 at 11:28:46
From George Washington
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
2017-11-01 at 10:57:26
From Kurt Vonnegut
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
2017-10-31 at 00:12:24
From Grant Babcock
Why not, then, let in the beneficial immigrants, and keep the harmful ones out? The thing proponents of this view are missing is this: Why would you ever trust a government, any government, to make that determination? Why would you think a government had an interest in making that determination correctly, or the means to do so?
2017-10-28 at 13:15:30
More From Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
2017-10-26 at 13:41:25