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2006 June 30
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"There are two kinds of restrictions on human liberty --
the restraint of law and that of custom.
No written law has ever been more binding than
unwritten custom supported by popular opinion." |
"The mortalist enemy unto knowledge,
and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth,
has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority." |
"For liberalism, the individual is the end, and society the means.
For fascism, society is the end, individuals the means, and its whole
life consists in using individuals as instruments for its social ends." |
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2006 June 29
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"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power." |
"The power of authority is never more subtle and effective
than when it produces a psychological "atmosphere" or "climate"
favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable,
and even fatal, to the life of others." |
"Uniformity, therefore, is an essential built-in element of utopian existence, and it is no less important that this uniformity remain permanent." |
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2006 June 28
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"No matter how noble the original intentions,
the seductions of power can turn any movement
from one seeking equal rights
to one that would deny them to others." |
"The greatest danger to liberty today
comes from the men who are most needed
and most powerful in modern government,
namely, the efficient expert administrators
exclusively concerned with what they regard
as the public good." |
"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested,
than in the protection of every individual’s private rights." |
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2006 June 27
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"The State... has had a vested interest in promoting attitudes that would tend to make us skeptical of our own abilities, fearful of the motives of others, and emotionally dependent upon external authorities for purpose and direction in our lives." |
"Good 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." |
"The dangers of a concentration of all power
in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours
are too obvious to be disregarded." |
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2006 June 26
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"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry
asks of government those things which
the citizenry might better provide for itself. ...
[I] hope we have once again reminded people that
man is not free unless government is limited.
There's a clear cause and effect here that
is as neat and predictable as a law of physics:
As government expands, liberty contracts." |
"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly,
but a political system nominally controlled
by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate
who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media
that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment
can hardly be described as democracy either." |
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and
intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished
from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and
the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people,
in order to betray them." |
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