A society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the requirements of man’s nature-is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. …
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra
Observe…the intellectual precision of the Founding Fathers: they spoke of the …
Observe…the intellectual precision of the Founding Fathers: they spoke of the right to *the pursuit* of happiness — *not* of the right *to* happiness. It means that a man has the right to take the actions he deems necessary to achieve his happiness; it does NOT mean that others must make him happy. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never …
If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d.Ã This will be their great Security. Samuel Adams
(1722-1803) – American revolutionary
One way is to give money and make a big show. That …
One way is to give money and make a big show. That is not my way of doing. I am of the Quaker belief, and although the Quakers are about all dead, I still follow their example. An ordinary gift to be bragged about is not a gift in the eyes of the lord. Hetty Howland Robinson Green
On giving money away. Hetty, Charles Slack, 2004. (1834-1916), p190
But it is necessary to know well how to disguise this characteristic […
But it is necessary to know well how to disguise this characteristic [the prince (leader) as both beast and man in ruling], and to be a great pretender and dissembler; and men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived. Nicolo Machiavelli
The Prince, written in 1505, published in 1515.
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[S]neak it in through the stealth of the night, get it through when people aren’t looking. Jim Jeffords
U.S. Senator, on the ‘Northeast Dairy Compact’. April 2001, to AP, also reported June 20, 2001 Wall Street Journal.
I’d rather that England should be free than that England should …
I’d rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety. W.C. Magee
(Archbishop of York): Sermon at Peterborough, 1868.
There are those who say that conservatives must make a choice between …
There are those who say that conservatives must make a choice between a message of economic growth and one of cultural renewal. Take your side, we are told, and the fight can begin. Make your decision between economics and cultural values.This choice is false; this conflict is destructive; and this decision, if forced on conservatives, would come at an unacceptable cost to their coalition. It is false in the realm of ideas because it ignores the full range of human needs, and costly in the realm of politics because it undermines the coalition of conscience that could transform the nation and renew its culture. Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp, USA Today Magazine, May 1995
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community …
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