Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. Noah Webster
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more …
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world. Colin Powell
reported in U.S. News & World Report January 29, 2001
I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what …
I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over past forty-nine years, they would move on Washington. It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States. George Malone
U.S. Senator, Nevada, speaking before Congress in 1957
I can argue all day, and it won’t affect our friendship …
I can argue all day, and it won’t affect our friendship but the moment I question your motive, you will never forgive me. Dwight D. Eisenhower
On why he reworded a draft address to Congress (34th President of the United States, 1890-1969)
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws …
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood..; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant chances that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow. James Madison
Federalist #62 (1751-1836)[The Internal Revenue Code is 11,200 pages of small print, with 2.8 million words as of the early 1990s]
Nobel Prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has …
Nobel Prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d …
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles. Doug Larson
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened …
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual …
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence. Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister (1874-1880), author, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1804-1881
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the …
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein
Physicist, theory of relativity (1879-1955)