Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don’t you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough. Frederic Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (1840s)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Travelers should focus on their anger at the real problem – too much …
Travelers should focus on their anger at the real problem – too much government. Consumers need to ask why a group of senators must approve an increase or decrease in the number of daily flights into major airports. They need to ask why this dynamic industry isn’t controlled by the market instead of greasy-palmed politicos. Matthew Maletestinic
U.S. News and World Report, September 11, 2000
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that …
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is …
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister (1874-1880), author, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1804-1881
Strange it is that men should admit to the validity of the …
Strange it is that men should admit to the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to their being ‘pushed to an extreme;’ not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case. Strange that they should imagine that they are not assuming infallibility when they acknowledge that there should be free discussion on all subjects which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because it is so certain, that is, because *they are certain* that it is certain. To call any proposition certain, while there is any one who would deny its certainty if permitted, is to assume that we ourselves, and those who agree with us, are the judges of certainty, and judges without hearing the other side. John Stuart Mill
Chapter II, Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, On Liberty (1859)
They are a disaster. They ruined the poor. They created a culture …
They are a disaster. They ruined the poor. They created a culture of poverty and a culture of violence which is destructive of this civilization, and they have to be replaced thoroughly from the ground up. Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich, 1994 on the Great Society programs
My word is my word, and my word is good. Rudy Boesch …
My word is my word, and my word is good.
Rudy Boesch
72-year old retired Navy SEAL on Survivor, August 2000
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first …
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. Anonymous
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, …
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it’s not so hot. Anonymous
Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and …
Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone. Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970), English mathematician and philosopher