COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Noah Webster
July 07, 2009 at 06:54 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Jean Lipman-Bluman, The Allure of Toxic Leaders (Sourcebooks, Inc., 2006) p. 103.Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority…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.
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Friedrich August von Hayek
July 07, 2009 at 06:46 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
F.A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, vol. 3 (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979) p. 124.‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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Friedrich August von Hayek
July 07, 2009 at 06:38 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
F.A. Hayek, A Free-Market Monetary System and The Pretense of Knowledge (Ludwig von Mises Institute, Alabama, 1974) p. 4.A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
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John Locke
July 07, 2009 at 06:33 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Michael L. Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory (Hackett Publishing, 2005) p. 742.Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence.
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Lord Chesterfield
July 07, 2009 at 06:29 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, The Works of Lord Chesterfield (Harper and brother publishers, New York, 1859) p. 19Arbitrary power…must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were, step by step, lest the people should see it approach.
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John Naisbitt
July 07, 2009 at 06:27 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
John Naisbitt, Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives (1980)America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities…My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.
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George Washington
July 07, 2009 at 06:21 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Andy Jones, Gerald L. Kovacich, Perry G. Luzwick, Global Information Warfare (CRC Press, 2002) p. 295.Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 07, 2009 at 06:17 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Karna Small Bodman, Checkmate (Macmillian, 2008) p. 279.A government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have…The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 07, 2009 at 06:09 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Jefferson to Georgetown Republicans (1809) ME 16:349.The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for.
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Samuel Adams
July 07, 2009 at 06:06 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Jim Hightower, Susan DeMarco, Swim Against the Current (John Wiley and Sons, 2008) p. 193.It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.
