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2010 April 23
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"The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed,
is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed,
and the advantages to result from them,
are sufficiently seen and understood." |
"Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious." |
"To be sure of hitting the target,
shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." |
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2010 April 22
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"The natural progress of things
is for liberty to yield
and government to gain ground." |
"If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization,
it expects what never was and never will be....
If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free,
it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." |
"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be
that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master." |
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2010 April 21
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"There are those who will say
that the liberation of humanity,
the freedom of man and mind,
is nothing but a dream.
They are right.
It is the American Dream." |
"The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions,
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
It will often be exercised when wrong
but better so than not to be exercised at all.
I like a little rebellion now and then.
It is like a storm in the atmosphere." |
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
As nations become corrupt and vicious,
they have more need of masters." |
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2010 April 20
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"Liberty means responsibility.
That is why most men dread it." |
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men.
It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs." |
"We cannot choose freedom
established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom,
on a caste system of equality like military rank.
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it." |
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2010 April 19
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"Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom." |
"He who passively
accepts evil
is as much
involved in it
as he who helps
to perpetuate it." |
"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,
or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self." |
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