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2020 May 08
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"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man;
a debt he proposes to pay off with your money." |
"A committee is a group of individuals
who all put in a perfectly good color,
and it comes out gray." |
"The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization,
which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ,
but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization,
against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better." |
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2020 May 07
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"Against individualism, the fascist conception is for the State;
and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State,
which is the conscience and universal will of man..." |
"The deterioration of every government
begins with the decay of the principles
on which it was founded." |
"They: The makers of the Constitution: conferred,
as against the government, the right to be let alone --
the most comprehensive of rights and
the right most valued by civilized men." |
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2020 May 06
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"Freedom is risky.
Nature makes no promises." |
"No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?" |
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible,
but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." |
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2020 May 05
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"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names." |
"The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy. It requires, indeed, self-command. But that will be fortified in proportion as the calls for its exercise are repeated." |
"Mind Your Business" |
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2020 May 04
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"To limit the press is to insult a nation;
to prohibit reading of certain books is
to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves." |
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may
at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval
of their own conscience." |
"The most formidable weapons against errors of every kind is reason.
I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall." |
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