COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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John Maynard Keynes
July 07, 2009 at 07:21 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
John Maynard Keynes, C.B., The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Macmillion and Company, London, 1920) p. 220, 221.By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
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Frederic Bastiat
July 07, 2009 at 07:03 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 59.God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations! And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.
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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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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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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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Frederic Bastiat
July 07, 2009 at 04:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 2.Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforhand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
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Thomas Paine
July 07, 2009 at 04:50 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (R. Bell, Philadelphia, 1776) Introduction.Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.
