Posted on 04/28/2005 2:21:46 PM PDT by libertarianben
Here is a list of qoutes on various topics from people from history. Some are positive, some are negative, some will make you happy, sad or angry. Hopefully they all will make you think. I'm think of doing this every week if not month. Tell me what you think. With that said here we go:
"If you cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded."-- Karl Marx
"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."--William Penn (1693)
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone."--Frederic Bastiat
"Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society."--Herbert Spencer
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of himself?"--Thomas Jefferson (1801)
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we dispise, we don't believe in it at all."--Noam Chomsky
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."--Winston Churchill (1903)
"The constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."--Patrick Henry
"Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks about changing himself."--Leo Tolstroy
"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while Right-wing politicans do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free." --Harry Browne
"Virtually all reasonable laws are obeyed, not because they are the law, but because reasonable people would do that anyway. If you obey a law simply because it is the law, that's a pretty likely sign that it shouldn't be a law."--Unknown
"Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once."--Robert Anton Wilson
"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." – P.J. O'Rourke
"When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." – Thomas Jefferson
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." – Thomas Jefferson
"Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man – in temperament, character, and capacity – and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so." – Frank Chodorov
"The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion." – Michael Bakunin
"The bureaucrat's first objective, of course, is preservation of his job – provided by the big-government system, at the taxpayers expense. … Whether real world problems get solved or not is of secondary importance. It doesn't take much cynicism, in fact, to see that the bureaucrats have a vested interest in not having problems solved. If the problems did not exist (or had been invented), there would be no reason for the bureaucrat to have a job" – William Simon, former U.S Treasury Secretary
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." – Plato (circa 400 B.C.)
By the year 2012, projected outlays for entitlements and interest on the national debt will consume all tax revenues collected by the federal government … There will not be one cent left over for education, children's programs, highways, national defense, or any other discretionary program. – Bipartisan U.S. Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform
"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but a swindling futurity on a large scale." – Thomas Jefferson
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit." – Abraham Lincoln, speech in Congress January 1848)
Now get ready... Here's the punch line.
"No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy."– Abraham Lincoln (not too much later)
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death." – James Madison
Sorry for not putting Vanity in the title.
ping
What is a 'qoute'?
But hey, I'll just quaff another beer!
Oh sorry
Or as Poe would say, "Qoute the Raven. Nevertheless!" heh, heh!
I enjoy Word for the Day and wish they'd use more "Q" words.
Sorry guys. Don't beat me up too bad. I corrected the title and reposted it. Go to that one instead. Again I'm sorry.
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit."
"No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy."– Abraham Lincoln (not too much later)
These two quotes are not contradictory. Lincoln was carrying the tradition of the founding fathers of Liberty and Equality when deciding to use force to perserve the union. The Confederates were not revolutionary, rather counter-revolutionary, acting in insurrection and rebellion against the ideas of the founding fathers, carrying the entire South with them in their perverted idea of liberty meaning individuals can be property and other individuals, having the right to own property, can hence own other individuals. This, under the flag of States rights, thought it to be tyranny when the Republicans took the federal government and seceeded because they lost the election, knowing that Republicans might dare use the Constitution to guarantee rights to ALL individuals. Thus, the South did not have the Moral clarity to have a legitamate revolution.
Sorry, i wont be around to argue with the neo-confederates.
I'm only guessing, but is this some sort of dyslexic solidarity post?
Seriesly.
Just to show I'm not prejudiced, let me say that those are some great qoutes you qouted!
LOL
Ok ok, give it a rest people.
Another Freeper sent me this.
On this point, Lincoln had the sympathy of a 20th century admirer who wrote:
“[I]ndividual states of the American Union . . . could not have possessed any state sovereignty of their own. For it was not these states that formed the Union, on the contrary it was the Union which formed a great part of such so-called states....Certainly all the states in the world are moving toward a certain unification in their inner organization. And in this Germany will be no exception. Today it is an absurdity to speak of a ‘state sovereignty’ of individual provinces....In particular we cannot grant to any individual state within the nation and the state representing it state sovereignty and sovereignty in point of political power....National Socialism as a matter of principle, must lay claim to the right to force its principles on the whole German nation without consideration of previous federated state boundaries.”--Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf
Dyslexics Untie!
Your right. Who would of thought to apply Liberty and Equality to all individuals, other wise we might end up like hitler!
You don't get it.
Gee, I thought You still had some slaves up Nawth after the WONA started.
I suppose We agree on many things, but why do I get the feeling that You want Me to scrape and bow every time You walk by? I am no less proud of My heritage than You are of Yours.
I am not racist, I select Friends based on shared values, and perhaps oddly, all My Friends, black, white, or otherwise, are Southerners. The democrats keep thinking they can do without Us, what do You think?
All my ancestors came in the early 20th Century. And I'm not remotely anti-southern; probably moving down there too when my schooling is finished.
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