Sayings ( Page 5 of 12 )

Chris Hedges August 13, 2014 00:00

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Robert A. Heinlein August 12, 2014 00:00

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.

John Stuart Mill August 11, 2014 00:00

religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human…

Reinhold Niebuhr August 10, 2014 00:00

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a…

James Madison August 09, 2014 00:00

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home

Walter Savage Landor August 08, 2014 00:00

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Alexis de Tocqueville August 07, 2014 00:00

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Winston Churchill August 06, 2014 00:00

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..

Ronald Reagan August 05, 2014 00:00

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Thomas Jefferson August 04, 2014 00:00

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance,…

Ronald Reagan August 03, 2014 00:00

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let…

Thomas Jefferson August 02, 2014 00:00

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in…