Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation. John Quincy Adams
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The basis of our political system is the right of the people …
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government George Washington
1732-1799. (Investor’s Business Daily, November, 3, 1998)
The only difference between the politics of liberalism and the politics of …
The only difference between the politics of liberalism and the politics of hate is the packaging and delivery method. Gerry Hildenbrand
Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers. …
Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers. George Santayana
(1863-1952)
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife …
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Lana Turner
By any objective criteria, the Federal Reserve has been a colossal flop. …
By any objective criteria, the Federal Reserve has been a colossal flop. Instead of maintaining the purchasing power of the dollar, the greenback has lost approximately 95% of its value since the Fed’s founding.The Fed was also supposed to use its tools to banish the business cycle, or at l east ‘smooth out’ the economy’s ups and downs. Instead, the Fed has given us the Great Depression, and nearly a dozen business recessions, including the deep downturns of 1973-75 and the off and on downturn of 1980-1982. Murray Sabrin
Dec 19, 2003
In purely practical terms, it is obviously easier for action to be …
In purely practical terms, it is obviously easier for action to be taken by one House without submission to the President; but it is crystal clear from the records of the Convention, contemporaneous writings and debates, that the Framers ranked other values higher than efficiency.
INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919, 958-59 (1983)
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power …
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and …
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it …
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin
Letter to M. Leroy, 1789, (Daniel DeFoe said soemthing similar regarding death and taxes 50 years before) 1706-1790