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2018 September 21
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"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights
could get through Congress today?
It wouldn't even get out of committee." |
"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress." |
"All governments are more or less combinations against the people...and as rulers have no more virtue than the ruled...the power of government can only be kept within its constituted bounds by the display of a power equal to itself, the collected sentiment of the people." |
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2018 September 20
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"[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously—after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth." |
"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed..." |
"All the public business in Congress
now connects itself with intrigues, and
there is great danger that the whole government
will degenerate into a struggle of cabals." |
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2018 September 19
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"We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions." |
"Every nation gets the government it deserves." |
"To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease." |
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2018 September 18
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"Video meliora, proboque;
Deteriora sequor."
(I see the better way, and approve it;
I follow the worse.) |
"The worst of all deceptions is self-deception." |
"We have met the enemy and he is us." |
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2018 September 17
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"Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice." |
"The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools." |
"Alas, how many have been persecuted
for the wrong of having been right?" |
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