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2010 March 26
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"If you think health care is expensive now,
wait until you see what it costs when it's free." |
"Another defining feature of therapeutic ethos, then, is the growing
tendency to define a range of human behaviors as diseases or pathologies." |
"The Care therefore of every man's Soul belongs unto himself, and is to
be left unto himself. But what if he neglect the Care of his Soul?
I answer, What if he neglects the Care of his Health, or of his Estate,
which things are nearlier related to the Government of the Magistrate
than the other? Will the magistrate provide by an express Law, That such
an one shall not become poor or sick? Laws provide, as much as is
possible, that the Goods and Health of Subjects be not injured by the
Fraud and Violence of others; they do not guard them from the Negligence
or Ill-husbandry of the Possessors themselves." |
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2010 March 25
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"I have been reading a German book. We must draft a decree at once...
Communal physical exercises. ... This is very important.
The health of the nation depends on it." |
"Adolf Hitler's life style is simple.
He never drinks alcohol and does not smoke." |
"In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation’s moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting -- all these will be used as a means to this end." |
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2010 March 24
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"The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. ... Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potatoe as an article of food." |
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny
individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." |
"No one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one. ...
Any man who has lived at all
knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of. ...
And if he does know it,
he knows also that neither he nor any man
ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate." |
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2010 March 23
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"Certain things we cannot accomplish… by any process of government.
We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality.
No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality." |
"No passion so effectually robs the mind
of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." |
"The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing." |
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2010 March 22
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"Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it,
and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments
under pretense of public safety." |
"Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud and vain." |
"The great masses of the people ...
will more easily fall victims
to a big lie than
to a small one." |
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