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2016 July 22
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"It has been discovered that the best way
to insure implicit obedience is to
commence tyranny in the nursery." |
"Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation." |
"Purveyors of political correctness will, in the final analysis,
not even allow others their judgments...
They celebrate "difference," but they will not allow people truly
to be different -- to think differently, and to say what they think." |
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2016 July 21
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"The restriction of knowledge to an elite group
destroys the spirit of the society and
leads to its intellectual impoverishment." |
"Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy
because it is mostly concealed, built into us
by indolence, self-interest and cowardice." |
"No nation, ancient or modern, ever lost the liberty
of speaking freely, writing, or publishing their sentiments,
but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves." |
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2016 July 20
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"Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings
for making everything compulsory
that isn't forbidden." |
"Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects
had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once,
all he has to do now is to 'educate the people'
so that they will have but one common mind to delude." |
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant
pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" |
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2016 July 19
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"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony
to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric." |
"Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship,
which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ...
is simply not a possibility in the modern age." |
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." |
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2016 July 18
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"The laws of this nature are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator? and does it not subject the innocent to all the disagreeable circumstances that should only fall on the guilty? It certainly makes the situation of the assaulted worse, and of the assailants better, and rather encourages than prevents murder, as it requires less courage to attack unarmed than armed persons." |
"A principal source of errors and injustice are false ideas of utility. For example: that legislator has false ideas of utility who considers particular more than general conveniencies, who had rather command the sentiments of mankind than excite them, who dares say to reason, 'Be thou a slave;' who would sacrifice a thousand real advantages to the fear of an imaginary or trifling inconvenience; who would deprive men of the use of fire for fear of their being burnt, and of water for fear of their being drowned; and who knows of no means of preventing evil but by destroying it." |
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