Hugh’s Quote of the Day:
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians – George Orwell
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians – George Orwell
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t have steak.” – Robert Heinlein
“Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.” – Frank Chodorov
“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4 (KJV)
“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.” – Isaiah 54:17 (KJV)
“One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The end of the law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.” – John Locke
“I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble.” – Peter McWilliams
“If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.” – Robert LeFevre
“For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.” – Philostratus (c. 170/172 – 247/250), called “the Athenian”, a Greek philosopher of the Roman imperial period
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” – Romans 8:31 (KJV)
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.” – Isaiah 49:15-16 (KJV)
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” President John F. Kennedy
“There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.” – Barry Goldwater