COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Edward Bernays
July 07, 2009 at 06:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Edward L. Bernays, Propoganda (1928) p. 47, 48.If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, the elite could control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it…just as the motorist can regulate the speed of his car by manipulating the flow of gasoline.
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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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John Adams
July 07, 2009 at 07:23 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Written in a letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1787.All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America rise, not from defects in the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 08, 2009 at 04:12 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Jefferson, Paul Leicester Ford, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1807-1815 Vol. IX (1898) p. 520.I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.
