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2015 November 06
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"Socialism in America will come through the ballot box." |
"How did it happen? How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with virtually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the activities of government. But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. All too often we have put men in office who have suggested spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who have proposed a new welfare program, who have thought of another variety of 'security.' We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our constitutional system. We have gone the way of many a democratic society that has lost its freedom by persuading itself that if 'the people' rule, all is well." |
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians." |
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2015 November 05
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"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?" |
"We must give full weight to Sir Charles's reminder that millions in the East are still half starved. To these my fears would seem very unimportant. A hungry man thinks about food, not freedom. We must give full weight to the claim that nothing but science, and science globally applied, and therefore unprecedented Government controls, can produce full bellies and medical care for the whole human race: nothing, in short, but a world Welfare State. It is a full admission of these truths which impresses upon me the extreme peril of humanity at present." |
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2015 November 04
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"A radical is one who speaks the truth." |
"And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties -- liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, of labor, of trade?" |
"To silence criticism is to silence freedom." |
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2015 November 03
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"It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong." |
"Not every item of news should be published.
Rather must those who control news policies endeavor
to make every item of news serve a certain purpose." |
"No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you
can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more
pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire
to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of
debate must be regarded as a sacred right." |
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2015 November 02
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"The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be." |
"Political correctness is really a subjective list
put together by the few to rule the many --
a list of things one must think, say, or do.
It affronts the right of the individual
to establish his or her own beliefs." |
"The whole principle is wrong.
It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk
because the baby can't eat steak." |
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